Lady Gaga sat down with Stephen Colbert for a deep dive on her career, her earliest days performing in New York City, her desire to start a family, and her perfect bagel order on The Late Show . She also passed judgment on Colbert’s efforts to pull off some of her most famous looks.
The interview took place at the Bitter End, the famed NYC nightclub where Gaga first started performing as a 14-year-old. For the occasion, Gaga shared some fliers from her earliest performance — when she was still using her real name Stefani Germanotta — as well as other ephemera, like a clipboard for interested fans to write down their names and emails, as well as a photo from right before she signed her first record deal.
Gaga also spoke about how she came to adopt her stage name around this time, des