In the war of words between Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton, all was quiet on the eastern front for nearly three months. Until yesterday when Gaga threw a grenade straight into Perez’s camp.
“If you hate somebody and you want to move next door to me, the only thing I can think of is that you’re moving in because you want to blow yourself up,” the ARTPOP singer told USA Today on Nov. 11. “There’s thousands and millions of apartments in New York. You don’t need to move in next door to me.”
Speaking with the national newspaper, Lady Gaga added she stands by statements she made in August about Perez trying to rent an apartment in her building for the purpose of stalking her. At the time of the feud’s first battle, Lady Gaga tweeted, “Do I need to be shot it in the head for people to understand that him and everyone else that harasses me has gone too far? I’m a human being.”
The first round of the feud exploded on Aug. 18 when Perez fired back at his former friend.
^ Perez and Gaga in 2009 when they were close friends.
“While it is still too painful for me to go into detail about why I chose to no longer make her a part of my life, I will say that I am a critic and not a stalker,” the celebrity blogger said on his website. “Any allegation that I am stalking her is utterly false, defamatory and now appear to be putting me in danger.”
To give the reader’s digest version, Gaga then called Perez a liar. He accused her of exploiting their relationship for publicity. Gaga then called somewhat of a truce by telling her Little Monsters to back off.
Now she seems to be declaring war — again.
“It’s fine to hate me afar. Everyone can hate me from afar. But the second you try to move in next door to me, I know you’re getting too close, and it’s not safe. Already it’s stressful not feeling safe as it is,” the told USA Today.
Perez quickly responded on Twitter…
.@LadyGaGa I've got my son and mom here with me in NYC and you think I'm going to blow myself up? Stop doing drugs!! http://t.co/l64NA425tM
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) November 11, 2013
@germanottajoe If your daughter ends up dead it's from a drug overdose. Not cuz I blew us up! http://t.co/l64NA425tM She's sick! delusional!
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) November 11, 2013
If you think marijuana is the only drug @LadyGaGa has been doing regularly in 2013, then you're as delusional as she is.
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) November 11, 2013
Sounds like this story is developing…
UPDATE Our “storm’s a’ brewin'” senses were right on! Lady Gaga spoke with Howard Stern today about why she and Perez went from friends to enemies. The complete diss was transcribed by Us Weekly…
What happened was we were doing an interview . . . and in the middle of the interview he started asking me really terrible questions,” Gaga revealed to Stern. “He was being very negative about Born This Way and we had had a lot to drink. He was supposed to be my friend and I felt betrayed, so I started crying. My friend had to come in and pull the camera out, they wouldn’t turn the cameras off… He apologized, but I sort of felt like it was like, ‘But I’m Perez Hilton so I’m allowed to treat you this way.’ I looked at him and said, ‘Just because you are who you are, does not mean that our friendship doesn’t mean anything when the cameras turn on. So, now I see who you really are.
(I’m not sure how that falling out led Gaga to believe Perez wishes her bodily harm, but whatever…)
In a subsequent series of tweets, Perez accused Gaga of being “a real-life vampire.”
