Lady Gaga Reacts to Ex-Classmate's Facebook Group Claiming She'd 'Never Be Famous': 'This Is Why You Don't Give Up'

Lady Gaga, you will always be famous.

The Grammy winner, 38, reminisced on the more difficult moments of her time studying at New York University on Sept. 11, as she commented on a fan's TikTok looking back on a Facebook group created by her ex-classmates with the title, "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous."

The TikTok post featured two photos — a screenshot of the Facebook group, long known among Gaga's fans, and a picture of the "Die with a Smile" singer at the 2019 Academy Awards overlayed with a list featuring many honors she's received in her career.

"Some people I went to college [with] made this way back when," commented Gaga, 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 Joker: Folie à Deux star learned to play music as a child and began performing as a teenager, later becoming known in the downtown Manhattan club scene in the mid-2000s.

She took up the stage name "Lady Gaga" around the same time, partly inspired by Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga," while music producer and her ex-boyfriend Rob Fusari has claimed to have come up with the moniker. As she told Jamie Lee Curtis during an interview for Variety's “Actors on Actors” series in 2016, the alias also feels representative of various elements of her personality.

"Gaga is this stronger individual part of myself that I discovered being young in New York — loving music, meeting with young artists, working with musicians, with writers, studying the scene and being involved in the lifestyle," she said at the time. "I started to call myself Gaga. [It] was the nickname I had at my best."

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Under the stage name, Gaga soared to stardom with 2009 debut album, The Fame, spawning her early hits "Just Dance," "Poker Face," LoveGame" and "Paparazzi." She's since earned 13 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and three BRIT Awards.

Gaga is currently promoting her leading role as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, a.k.a. Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux, but she posted to Instagram on Sept. 3 and teased the release date for the first new single from her upcoming seventh album.

She shared a photo of her Venice Film Festival schedule for the week, including a welcome dinner, the Joker sequel's world premiere screening, press conference, red carpet and European press junket.

After the festival, Gaga's schedule noted that Joker: Folie à Deux, also starring Joaquin Phoenix in its titular role, is out in theaters on Oct. 4 — and the "LG7 first single" will be released sometime the same month.