Lady Gaga wore a bulletproof vest during her performance at the Inauguration
“It was a scary time in this country,” Gaga tells Stephen Colbert on The Late Show
During her interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night, Lady Gaga discussed the magic of working with friend and jazz legend Tony Bennett on their newly Grammy-nominated album, Love For Sale, her method acting in Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci, and her performance of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration earlier this year.
The actor and singer revealed she didn’t just wear a giant gold dove brooch to the inaugural event—she also wore a bulletproof vest. As part of the design of her blue and red gown, a bulletproof vest was sewn into the fabric of the Maison Schiaparelli dress.
“It was a scary time in this country,” Gaga told Colbert. “I care a lot about my family and as a performer I understand that I put myself in all types of dangerous situations in order to do what I love. I did that for myself but also so my family, my Mom and my Dad and my sister would feel confident.”
Which makes sense. The country was coming off of a hotly contested election involving weeks of bickering over ballots, which ultimately led up to the violent January 6 insurrection. Things were tense in the country building up to the inaugural event—to say the least.