Bella Hadid, Lady Gaga & Blake Lively Who’ve Open Up About the Bullying They Faced as Kids

Lady Gaga

Gaga told PEOPLE that her memories of being bullied helped her connect with her insecure A Star is Born character, Ally.

“Well, what’s different between Ally and [myself] is that when I decided I was going to go for it as a singer and songwriter, I just hit the ground running,” she said. “I really believed in myself. Ally is not this way. My character in this film, she doesn’t believe in herself at all. She’s very jaded by the music industry and she’s given up on herself.”

“What I had to do was go back further into my childhood, into my high school years, when I was bullied and made fun of for having big dreams,” she continued. “That’s where I went.”

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