Lady Gaga took a look back at her humble roots Wednesday, acknowledging a now-deleted Facebook group created by some of her classmates at New York University titled, “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.” Screenshots of the community, which calls Gaga out by her birth name, have circulated online among fans for several years now.
Gaga confronted the existence of the group publicly by commenting on a TikTok about it. The original post juxtaposed a screenshot of the 12-member Facebook group with a list of the star’s many accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, 13 Grammy Awards, 10 Billboard Music Awards and 18 MTV Music Video Awards.
“Some people I went to college [with] made this way back when,” Gaga wrote on the post. “This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down — gotta keep going.”