Lady Gaga won two Critics’ Choice Awards last night before rushing from the ceremony to say goodbye to her dying horse.
However, she was nowhere to be seen during the post-show interviews.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
She explained the reason for her sudden departure in a note posted to social media.
The 32-year-old star told fans she felt “honoured and blessed” to have won the awards. “But it saddens me to say that just after the show I learned that my dear angel of a horse, Arabella, is dying,” she wrote. “I am rushing to her now to say goodbye.”
Gaga “skipped all post-show events in favor of rushing home to say goodbye to her beloved pet”, says Entertainment Tonight.
According to fan website Gagapedia, the singer received Arabella as a gift from her record label in December 2015. The following year, she purchased a stallion named Trigger as a companion for the mare, with the pair producing two foals.
As well as frequently popping up on Gaga’s social media accounts, Arabella also graced the cover of her 2018 single Joanna.
“I will never forget the moments we shared. Long hikes together, galloping through the canyons. Feeding her cookies,” Gaga wrote in her statement last night. “She will forever be a part of me. I am so very sad.”
-
What to know before turning to AI for financial advicethe explainer It can help you crunch the numbers — but it might also pocket your data
-
Book reviews: 'The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief' and 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run'Feature The search for a headache cure and revisiting Springsteen's 'Born to Run' album on its 50th anniversary
-
Keith McNally' 6 favorite books that have ambitious charactersFeature The London-born restaurateur recommends works by Leo Tolstoy, John le Carré, and more
-
Home Office worker accused of spiking mistress’s drink with abortion drugSpeed Read Darren Burke had failed to convince his girlfriend to terminate pregnancy
-
In hock to Moscow: exploring Germany’s woeful energy policySpeed Read Don’t expect Berlin to wean itself off Russian gas any time soon
-
Were Covid restrictions dropped too soon?Speed Read ‘Living with Covid’ is already proving problematic – just look at the travel chaos this week
-
Inclusive Britain: a new strategy for tackling racism in the UKSpeed Read Government has revealed action plan setting out 74 steps that ministers will take
-
Sandy Hook families vs. Remington: a small victory over the gunmakersSpeed Read Last week the families settled a lawsuit for $73m against the manufacturer
-
Farmers vs. walkers: the battle over ‘Britain’s green and pleasant land’Speed Read Updated Countryside Code tells farmers: ‘be nice, say hello, share the space’
-
Motherhood: why are we putting it off?Speed Read Stats show around 50% of women in England and Wales now don’t have children by 30
-
Anti-Semitism in America: a case of double standards?Speed Read Officials were strikingly reluctant to link Texas synagogue attack to anti-Semitism
