Lady Gaga’s dogwalker shares GoFundMe campaign to “support the process of growing from trauma”

nme.com:

Lady Gaga’s dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the purchase of a new van, with which he’ll continue the cross-country road trip he embarked on two months ago.The GoFundMe campaign was made public on Monday (August 16), after Fischer ceased travels with his previous van “Trudy”, a 1991 Ford Falcon rental that he said “drove like a boat in high wind”.Fischer began his six-month journey trekking across the US back in June, citing a need to recover from the trauma he sustained from being shot while he was walking three of Gaga’s dogs in February.“At times I was scared,” he wrote in a statement alongside his GoFundMe. “I was lonely.