Lady Gaga forced to stop her Sydney show after dancer falls off the stage and suffers painful injury
LADY Gaga was forced to stop her Sydney gig mid-show after one of her dancers fell off the stage.
The Poker Face hitmaker, 39, halted the action during her Mayhem Ball concert following heavy rain at the Accor Stadium.
The Sydney venue is open-air and, two hours after the show kicked off, the painful mishap brought a temporary stop to proceedings.
Lady Gaga kick-started her 31-song setlist with tracks Bloody Mary and Abracadabra.
She belted out the likes of Judas, Poker Face and Aura before the issue struck mid-way through Garden of Eden.
The track is from her 2025 album Mayhem on which the tour is named.
With a soaking wet floor, the dancers charged to the front of the stage.
One, named Michael Dameski, fell down during the choreography and A Star Is Born actress Gaga was quick to wave her arms and call a stop to the show at around 9pm.
The singer and her dancers then retreated inside during a temporary pause, to try to find more suitable footwear.
They then resumed the show, with further tracks including Rain On Me, How Bad Do You Want Me and Always Remember Us This Way playing out.
FAN PRAISE
Fans were quick to praise Gaga’s actions in what was her last Aussie show of the tour.
One took to X to write: “Sending love and well wishes to Gaga’s dancer, Michael, who fell off stage during Garden Of Eden.
“So grateful that Gaga paused the show to check on him. True professionalism and compassion.”
Another put: “She’s so special the way she ran straight over, climbed down and made sure he was okay.”
Gaga kicked off the tour’s epic global run in Las Vegas in July.
The show is a dramatic depiction of Gaga’s lifelong battles with the “light and dark” inside herself.
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Gaga’s career has seen a meteoric resurgence this year, following the release of her seventh album Mayhem in March.
Singles Abracadabra and Disease broke into the Top Ten, while her Bruno Mars collaboration Die With A Smile became one of the biggest hits of the year worldwide.
Yet it hasn’t come without incident, after she previously fell off stage in front of fans during one live show.
SPEAK OUT
Speaking to Bizarre as Mayhem was released, a source explained that Gaga has finally found inner peace after years of struggling with her pop star persona and the real person behind it, Stefani Germanotta.
The insider explained: “Gaga has never hidden her real self from the world.
“But she’s more comfortable now in her ability to associate herself as the creator instead of the product.
“The person she wakes up as is the same person who hits the stage.”
The singer’s energetic routines showed that she has fully recovered from a hip injury and fibromyalgia, a condition which caused musculoskeletal pain, extreme fatigue and deep anxiety — and resulted in the cancellation of part of her Joanne world tour in 2018.