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Lady Gaga is taking a break from music
the pop star gets candid about her battle with chronic pain
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Lady Gaga is going on hiatus.
While promoting her upcoming Netflix documentary “Gaga: Five Foot Two” at the Toronto Film Festival, the pop star told The Hollywood Reporter she’s taking a break.
While Gaga doesn’t know when she will be back, she won’t quit her passion completely.
“I’m going to take a rest,” Gaga says. “It doesn’t mean I won’t be creating. It doesn’t mean I don’t have some things up my sleeve.”
She continued that she plans to “slow down for a moment, for some healing. Because that’s important.”
Gaga’s documentary follows the singer as she deals with the emotional highs of creating her album “Joanne” and performing at the Superbowl. She also opens up about her struggles, including her battle with chronic pain, a secret she had been keeping from the public until now.
“There is an element and a very strong piece of me that believes pain is a microphone,” Gaga explained at the press conference. “My pain really does me no good unless I transform it into something that is. I hope that people watching it that struggle with chronic pain know they are not alone.”
“Gaga: Five Foot Two” streams on Netflix on Sept. 22.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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