Heidi Montag Claims Lady Gaga Interfered With Her Music Career: ‘I Was a Potential Rival’

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Gaga vs. Heidi? As Heidi Montag’s tenure on The Hills grew popular, she launched her own music career. However, she has since alleged that Lady Gaga’s success as a performer interfered with her own.“[RedOne, a producer] and I were going to pair up and we were going to do what him and Lady Gaga ended up doing, which is writing every song together and producing,” the Laguna Beach alum, 35, revealed on the Monday, March 21, episode of the “Unpopular with Jacques Peterson” podcast, noting that the Morocco native, 49, produced a demo of her singing “Fashion,” which Gaga, 35, wrote.“He was like, ‘I just need to get the consent of the writer.’ And so I just thought Lady Gaga was a writer because she was a writer on the song,” she added. “And he was like, ‘Hey, I’m gonna cut ‘Fashion’ with Heidi.

I have her in the studio, she loves it.’ And [Gaga’s] like, ‘Great. Sure, she can have that song.’ So then I recorded it and it was my song.

That was the impression I was under.”Montag — who married Spencer Pratt in November 2008 — noted that she then used her “Fashion” recording to promote her clothing line before the A Star Is Born actress wanted the rights back.

Gaga then recorded a version of the single for the Confessions of a Shopaholic soundtrack.“It’s hard because people are like, ‘I love Lady Gaga!’ And I’m like, ‘I’m sure she’s great but I have not had the best encounter with her,’” Montag alleged. “She did not want me working with RedOne and she told RedOne she wouldn’t work with him anymore if I kept working with him.