Lady Gaga is “convinced” she is controlled by Andy Warhol

The ‘Telephone’ hitmaker is said to have become obsessed with the late pop artist – who died in 1987 aged 58 – and reportedly makes her decisions based on their imaginary conversations.

A source said: “She is convinced he is controlling her from beyond the grave, guiding her life and career. Her entire life has become dictated by these conversations.”

Another insider claimed: “She says she is in touch with his spirit. She sits and talks to him for hours, as if he’s in the room with her. She says he tells her what to wear.”

The 24-year-old singer is so obsessed with the artist she has bought several of his works and is planning to throw a Warhol-themed party later this week, much to the bemusement of event planners.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “She has told the organisers that everything must be in the spirit of Warhol.

“They were a little confused at first but are doing their best to satisfy her demands. Her house is insane. She has spent thousands turning it into a shrine to Warhol.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if she started dressing head to toe in his clothes and changed her name to Andy.”

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol work was a staggering $100 million for his 1963 canvas ‘Eight Elvises’, and he is also famous for his prediction that in the future everyone would enjoy “15 minutes of fame”.

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The eccentric star has revealed her life spiralled into a world of heavy drug use in a bid to replicate the lifestyles of her musical idols.

The ‘Paparazzi’ singer would lock herself in her bedroom and snort “bags and bags” of cocaine for songwriting inspiration when she was starting out, but realised she was jeopardising her life when she recalled her aunt Joanne who died at 19.

Gaga – real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta – said: “I thought I was going to die. I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle. My cocaine soundtrack was always The Cure. I would lock myself in my room and listen to ‘Never Enough’ on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.

“But then I realised my father’s sister Joanne, who died at 19, had instilled her spirit in me. She was a painter and a poet – and I had a spiritual vision I had to finish her business.”

The 23-year-old pop beauty – who began experimenting with cocaine and the hallucinogenic drug LSD after she dropped out of her course at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts when she was 20 – insists her late auntie is still a huge influence on her career.

Gaga – who won two Grammys last weekend – added in new biography ‘Lady Gaga: Just Dance: The Biography’ by Helia Phoenix: “I never met her, but she’s been one of the most important figures in my life.”

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The ‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’ star purchased the Andy Warhol painting in 2001 for £2 million and was praised for his knowledge of the art world when he sold it for £13 million in 2007.

But Hugh, 49, has confessed he ordered a member of his staff to bid for the painting at a New York auction during two-days of drinking.

He is quoted by the Mail Online website as saying: “To my horror, she did, and even worse, got it. It all began with drink. I’d been having a drunken dinner with my father the night before, and I said, ‘We ought to go see my brother Jamie. You know, the Concorde’s amazing.’

‘And he said, ‘I hear it is.’ So I bought him a Concorde ticket and we went. We had lunch, drank a lot of beer. And I was thinking about some stuff in the Sotheby’s auction and I saw the Liz Taylor. I slightly regret selling it now, even though it made me rich.”

The pop art painting was one of several portraits Warhol created at the height of his fame and creative output in the 60s.

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