Before she blew up and became the pop superstar we know her as today, Lady Gaga had two cameo appearances on MTV reality shows.
In 2005, when she had just started to focus on her music career, she appeared on the hidden camera show Boiling Points as an unsuspecting customer whose dining experience had gone horribly wrong and three years later, as her career was just starting to heat up, she was on The Hills.
Now, 17 years after her appearance on the dramatic reality series, Lady Gaga has shared her thoughts on the experience.
Why was Lady Gaga on The Hills?
Unlike her appearance on Boiling Points, Lady Gaga's cameo on The Hills came after she had started to establish herself as an artist and was focused around her getting ready for a performance. Because she wasn't the massive star she is now, a lot of the episode was focused around the intrapersonal drama between The Hills cast and Lady Gaga was just an accessory to it.
During the episode, Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port were tasked with helping Lady Gaga get dressed and ready for her performance when tragedy struck: she realized that the zipper on the skin-tight black catsuit she was wearing for the performance had broken.
Backstage at the party, Whitney Port and Lauren Conrad work to help repair the zipper and the pair managed to pull it off in a move that inspired a then-unknown Lady Gaga to call Lauren Conrad "Superwoman."
Prior to the party, their boss, Kelly Cutone, had let them know that the two of them were going to be working with "some girl named Lady Gaga" who she described as Interscope Records' next big thing and it's safe to say that she had no idea how true that was.
Lady Gaga on whether or not Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port were good at their job
To promote her upcoming album, Lady Gaga took part in Vanity Fair's iconic lie detector test series. During the video, she was asked all the burning questions that Lady Gaga's Little Monsters have been dying to know, including whether or not she'll be bringing Beyonce back for "Telephone" part 2, what happened to Jo Calderone, and the biggest question of all: what she thought of her appearance on The Hills.
She was asked whether or not Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port did a good job when they helped her with her broken zipper backstage and the "Abracadabra" singer said yes, but Vanity Fair's lie detector said that her answer was "inconclusive." The shade.
Where to watch The Hills now
The Hills aired its final episode on MTV in 2010, but nostalgia for the reality TV shows of the 2000s and early 2010s lives on. Luckily, fans that want to look back on all the drama and relive all the mascara tears that Lauren Conrad cried can still watch the show now.
The Hills is currently available for streaming in full on Paramount+ for subscribers and the second season is available for free on Pluto TV.