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Heidi Montag says Lady Gaga destroyed her music career by not letting RedOne work with her

'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,' she claimed

Heidi Montag claims Lady Gaga destroyed her once-promising music career by not letting producer RedOne work with her after she appeared on 'The View' in 2009 with a song produced by him. Montag, 35, stated that her feud with Gaga, who was then a rising celebrity, began because they were both working with the same producer, RedOne, at the time.

"[RedOne] 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," she said on the Unpopular podcast. Heidi recorded the song "Fashion", which was produced by RedOne and written by Lady Gaga, in the studio with the two of them.

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"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," Heidi explained. "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."

Heidi used the dance-pop hit "Fashion" during an appearance on 'The View' to advertise her clothes company after recording it with RedOne. Heidi claims that after the song was featured on the daytime talkshow, Gaga took the song back to record it herself for the soundtrack of the 2009 film 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'.

"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,'" she said.

Heidi also claimed Gaga stop her from working with RedOne, whose real name is Nadir Khayat, on any new music.
"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," she alleged. "And he's like, "I'm sorry. She's my writing partner for huge things." We even went out to dinner with him several times and we were hanging out with him and she pulled the cord."

RedOne spoke to Us Weekly in September 2009 about recording 'Fashion' with Heidi and his intentions to produce her debut album. He told the magazine at the time, "I'm writing and producing whole album. We are going to do it big. She finally found someone she connected with - me. It's all about the connection. When it doesn't work with an artist, it doesn't work. With her, it's perfect. You can tell in the music that we connect. I definitely think she's a star. She has a star quality - a powerful personality with no limits. She can do anything and make it sound credible. She's a born star."

RedOne later denied producing Heidi's CD, referring to the reports as "lies."

Initially RedOne was reluctant to work with the then unknown Gaga, but his management eventually persuaded him that Gaga was good enough. The two met and hit it off right away. "I already liked her aura, it was special," he remarked of his first encounter with Gaga.

"We started talking and I really liked her because you were talking to a musician, not just, 'I wanna be a star! I wanna be a singer,' the usual. She's the real deal. I felt something," RedOne said. When they first walked into the studio, creative sparks sparked, and they rapidly collaborated on hits like 'Just Dance' and 'Poker Face'.

In a 2016 interview with Spin, Heidi's husband Spencer Pratt backed up his wife's statements about Lady Gaga. "Lady Gaga was this songwriter," Pratt told the music publication.

Pratt went on to say, "We only know her name was Stefani. She was not even Lady Gaga yet, and she wrote a song with RedOne. RedOne gave it to Heidi and they put it out and everything. And then when it was on The View and getting all this press because Heidi had her Heidi fashion show, and the song Fashion was playing, all of sudden Lady Gaga freaked out, called RedOne, 'That’s my song! I wanted that!' and da-da-da."

Heidi's debut album "Superficial" was released in 2010. Despite spending more than $2 million to work with some of the industry's biggest producers, Superficial only sold 1,000 copies in its first week. She followed up the album with the EP 'Dreams Come True' in 2012, before taking a nearly decade-long hiatus from the music industry. Heidi made a brief comeback in 2019 with "Glitter and Glory", a Christian dance tune featured on 'The Hills: New Beginnings'.