Lady Gaga bares her claws in Manhattan. (Splash)
Lady Gaga is a “desperate” “publicity-seeking hypocrite” and “bully,” according to Sharon Osbourne. The Osbourne family matriarch released a scathing open letter to the Born This Way singer on her facebook page Thursday night, after Gaga dared to criticize Osbourne’s daughter Kelly in an open letter of her own.
Gaga had kicked things off earlier on Thursday when she posted a letter to Kelly on her website littlemonsters.com, criticizing the star for her work on “Fashion Police.” “Your show breeds negativity and over the years has even become comedic in nature,” she said in the 478-word rant. “It glorifies you and Joan Rivers pointing in the camera, laughing and making jokes about artists and celebrities as if we are zoo animals.” Insisting she had “empathy” for the star for choosing “a less compassionate path,” Gaga urged her “to take responsibility and accountability.”
(Gaga had previously been one of Kelly’s targets herself, when the star insisted she was looking pregnant back in September.)
Mom Sharon, however, was quick to come to her daughter’s defense. “I am perplexed as to why you would go public with an open letter,” she began, calling it “hypocritical and full of contradictions.”
“When I see you wearing fur and using it as a fashion statement,” Sharon wrote, “the fact that defenseless animals have been killed so you can get your picture in the press is abhorrent to me.”
“By your actions to Kelly right now, you have shown me you are nothing more than a publicity seeking hypocrite and attention seeker,” she continued. “…Are you so desperate that you need to make this public?”
Sharon also revealed that Gaga’s letter was a response to an email she had recently sent Gaga’s rep, Vince Hebert, asking him to have Gaga work to end her fan’s criticism of Kelly. She cited one tweet where a Gaga fan called her “an ugly whore” who “deserves to be hit by a car and die of AIDS.”
While Sharon said she welcomed a response from Gaga, calling herself “an open playing field,” Gaga reacted more quietly, deleting her Twitter link to the original piece.