Dressed down in jean cutoffs and an Elvis Presley T-shirt, Lady Gaga looked confident but relaxed, blissful but tired after a long day on set, and missing something notable: Her entourage.
Accompanied only by her manager, this was Stefani, the 29-year-old New York native whose parents were visiting her on set that day. A real person with real feelings and emotions, who isn't afraid to open up about her greatest fears and the greatest misconceptions she feels people have about her. This was a stripped-down Gaga. And in an exclusive and deeply personal sitdown with the actress for E! News (airing tonight at 7 pm and 11 pm), on the eve of her TV debut on American Horror Story: Hotel, the actress revealed she feels more "normal" and unguarded than ever, thanks to the cast and specifically creator Ryan Murphy, whom she deems a "soul mate." She says she's been able to be herself and truly connect with new people after a long time. "I do know isolation," Gaga explained, "because I'm famous and it's hard to go be normal all the time. And when you meet people in public, 99% of the time, people aren't that interested in really getting to know me. There's sort of a wall between us that they think something of me that I'm not. I'm really just a human being that makes this?stuff."
