Lady Gaga really annoyed “Bachelor” alum Carly Waddell in college: 'She's so ridiculous'
"She would play on the piano… and we were all just trying to eat lunch," Waddell said on a podcast.
Before Lady Gaga was on the edge of glory, she was a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts — and one classmate, The Bachelor alum Carly Waddell, wasn't a fan.
During a recent appearance on Jason Tartick's Trading Secrets podcast, Waddell revealed that the "Bad Romance" singer had a habit that didn't make her the most popular among her classmates.
"[We] would eat in a dance studio," Waddell recalled. "And there was a piano, and [Gaga] would sit at the piano every single day and just play and sing Wicked at the top of her lungs every day. And we were all just trying to eat lunch. It was break time, and we were all forced to listen to her. And yes, was she good? Of course! She was great, but I just wanted to eat my sandwich. And so I used to just eat in the hallway because she was driving me crazy."
Waddell also said Gaga wasn't more noticeably talented than her peers at Tisch. "She was one of the good ones, but I wouldn't ever be like, 'She was so above.' But now she's so above," she said.
Waddell went on to confirm that even as a student, Gaga always had a flair for outlandish style: "She's so extra. She would wear these really tight leotards, and she had really big boobs back then, and her boobs were just like coming out. She's so ridiculous."
According to the former Bachelor contestant, Gaga's talent was most apparent when she performed her own material. "She started doing her own music way before she was doing musical theater stuff, and when she played at the NYU talent show, she was singing her own stuff, and I was like, 'You can't argue, that girl is really good,'" Waddell recalled. "She was good at everything, but she was better at her own stuff. She was down at the piano, wailing her own tunes."
Still, Waddell, who dropped out of the program around the same time Gaga left the school, is unsure how her former classmate took her skills to the next level. "I don't know, I don't know what she did, but she's a genius," she said. "I wasn't a fan of her at that moment, but I was not my best at that moment either. We both dropped out of the program because we didn't love the program, and I'm sure she was just as unhappy in it as I was or she would have stayed."
Listen to the full podcast episode above.
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