The Most Eye-Opening Things We Learned About Lady Gaga From Her Netflix Documentary

Ever since she broke her right hip while on tour in 2013, Gaga has been suffering from chronic pain. The documentary features several scenes of her struggling as medics, therapists and her own team try to ease her pain. At one heartbreaking point, she admits to being "embarrassed," noting that if she didn't have the kind of money she has she doesn't know what she would do.

"I just think about other people that have maybe something like this that are struggling to figure out what it is, and they don't have the money to have somebody help them," she says. "Like, I don't know what I'd f*ckin' do if I didn't have everybody here to help me. What the hell would I do?"

She still battles with fibromyalgia, having to cancel the entire European leg of the Joanne World Tour in early September 2017 to combat her issues.

Even a superstar like Gaga has had to deal with sleazy male record executives over the years. In her early career especially she was simply considered another girl who wanted to get famous and would therefore do whatever it takes to get to the top. Gaga's talent has shown she's so much more than that, though, as she has continued to prove. 

While she noted that Mark Ronson, producer on Joanne, was not this way, she did acknowledge that it has been a huge problem for her over the years.

"When producers — unlike Mark — start to act like, 'you'd be nothing without me,' for women especially, since those men have so much power, they can have women in a way that no other men can," she says. "And then I walk in the room, and it's like eight times out of 10, I'm put in that category, and they expect from me what those girls have to offer, when that's just not at all what I have to offer. That's not what I'm here for."

Fans were mournful when they first heard the news that Gaga had broken off her engagement with actor Taylor Kinney. The pair, who met on the set of her music video for "You and I," went their separate ways but were amicable in their split. Five Foot Two opens with Gaga talking about how she is fighting with Kinney again. She then goes on a particularly memorable rant about dealing with men.

"My threshold for bulls**t with men is… I don't have one anymore," she states. "I just don't care. Maybe 'cause I'm 30 and I feel better than ever, you know? All my insecurities are gone, I don't feel insecure about who am I as a woman. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed of what I have."

While her words are defiant in this moment, she is clearly heartbroken after the breakup occurs, revealing that there has been a pattern where every time a great thing happens in her professional life, her personal life turns to crap.

"It's a sad day when I'm doing the Super Bowl, and I'm so excited to do it, but I can't help but realize that when I sold 10 million records, I lost Matt," she recalls. "I sell 30 million, I lose Luc. You know? I get the movie [A Star Is Born, with Bradley Cooper], I lose Taylor. It's like a turnover. This is the third time I've had my heart broken like this."

The life of a pop star can swing from one extreme to another. Merely stepping outside can cause hundreds of fans to swarm to get an autograph or a picture. Producers and stylists hound you, all of them in service to you. But then, everyone disappears at the end of the night, and you're left alone, with your own thoughts. This is what Gaga expresses when talking about her various breakups and her feelings on being attended to all day and then being left alone.

"I'm alone, Brandon, every night," she tells designer Brandon Maxwell. "And all these people will leave. Right? They will leave. And then I'll be alone. And then I go from everyone touching me all day and talking at me all day to total silence."

Gaga has made a name for herself with her eye-catching costumes, from meat dresses to an outfit made up entirely of Kermit the Frog dolls. The Joanne era saw her scaling back such eccentricities significantly and, as she implies in the documentary, she now feels more comfortable in her own skin. While she admits she still loves the glamour and avant-garde looks, it is only now that she feels happy in comfortable clothes.

"I never felt comfortable enough to sing and just be this way, now," she says. "To just sing, wear my hair back. I never felt pretty enough or smart enough or a good enough musician. That's the good part. The good part is that I just didn't feel good enough, and I do now. I know I deserve - of all the things I deserve, that is where I know I'm worth something so I have to stay there."