EXCLUSIVE: Why Lady Gaga Refused To Tour With 'Grade-A Disaster' Kanye West
Sept. 13 2010, Published 2:10 p.m. ET
There's about to be a lot revealed about Lady Gaga in a new blockbuster biography about the Bad Romance singer that hits shelves on Tuesday, September 14 - and only Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive excerpts before the book's release.
Among the many interesting things about Gaga in Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga is why she canceled her headlining tour with Kanye West last summer.
"He's a grade-A disaster, a mess. If his name is on it, no one will touch it," a source inside West's camp told author Maureen Callahan.
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The combination of West's infamous 2009 VMA stunt with Taylor Swift and the threat of one of Gaga's top staffers, Anthony Randall, quitting if she proceeded with the tour led her to call it off.
According to Callahan, Gaga is exceptionally passive-aggressive and non-confrontational. One minute she'll praise a staff member and the next minute they're fired, not knowing why or what happened.
Gaga is described as a control freak who has allegedly fired over 150 people in the last two years.
Extremely driven to make it big in American with her first hit Just Dance, Gaga did hundreds of re-cuts so that virtually every radio station in the United States had a version with their call letters in the song.
Gaga's crazy image is actually a way to distract from her looks the book claims, saying they were openly discussed as a liability.
She was originally contrac