Lady Gaga reacts to former classmates who said she’d ‘never be famous’

Look at her now.

Lady Gaga, 38, recalled a more difficult times of her life while studying at New York University on 9/11, as she commented on a fan’s TikTok looking back on a Facebook group created by her former classmates titled, “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.”

The viral TikTok post featured two pictures – a screenshot of the Facebook group and a picture of the Grammy winner at the 2019 Academy Awards alongside a list of many honors she received in her career, which includes 13 Grammy wins and an Oscar.

“Some people I went to college [with] made this way back when,” said Lady Gaga, who was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, underneath the images. “This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down—gotta keep going.”

The star briefly attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts before leaving in 2005 to pursue a music career.

At the time, she began performing under the stage name, as word of her performances rapidly spread among her peers, which led to the now-deleted Facebook group. Members of the group made fun of her larger-than-life dreams of becoming famous, as they mocked her performances and aspirations.

In fact, per Billboard, back in 2016, one of her former classmates, Lauren Bohn, recalled how members of the Facebook group belittled the famed singer and actress’ higher ambitions and even tore down flyers for her shows and trampled on them.

“I also remember one dude posting a flyer for one of her upcoming gigs at a local village bar. He had clearly stomped on the flyer, an outline of his muddy [sole] struggling to eclipse her name,” Bohn wrote, as she praised Gaga for relentlessly pursuing her dreams.