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It’s hard when celebrities, who normally get their way in everything and are seemingly above the laws that the rest of us plebeians live under, suddenly find their shit stinks too. Case in point: Lady Gaga thought she’d bring Anderson Cooper and his camera crew to the apartment she used to live, and would be invited in with open arms. Says Mail Online,

Lady Gaga finds fame doesn’t always open doors when she goes back to visit her old apartment – and the current resident refuses to let her in.

The pop queen – real name Stefani Germanotta – returned to the New York apartment block where she lived for three years before finding stardom for a U.S. TV special.

But her plans to show host Anderson Cooper and the ’60 Minutes’ crew around her old pad were dashed by the current occupant.

Gaga knocked on the door of her former apartment and announced: “Hi, this is Lady Gaga. I was just wondering if I could say, ‘Hi.’”

She did not get the response she was expecting though as the resident told her through the door: “I’d rather not have any cameras.”

Instead Gaga had to settle for showing Cooper a box of treasured mementos, including the first song she ever wrote aged four, called ‘Dollar Bills’.

The Lady Gaga TV special is set to air in America on February 13.

I’m sorry, the “Lady Gaga TV special”? Where we walk the hallowed steps of her former life, before her extraordinary talent was discovered? Who the hell is she, Elvis? that we’re supposed to be interested in the apartment that she lived, “where it all started”? Tell you what. Let’s have her die first, then you can have your show about “a life and talent cut short”. Deal? Deal.