Lady Gaga: Alexander McQueen wrote Born This Way from heaven

Singer Lady Gaga still feels connected to late designer Alexander McQueen

Lady Gaga was close to Alexander McQueen

Lady Gaga credits late fashion designer Alexander McQueen for her successful pop career.

The quirky singer reckons Alexander - who hanged himself last year - was looking down on her when she released her latest single Born This Way in February, exactly a year after he passed.

'I think he planned the whole thing,' says Lady Gaga,�25.

'Right after he died, I wrote Born This Way. I think he's up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing.'

Lady Gaga - real name Stefani Germanotta - even says she's not the brains behind her record-breaking single.

'When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing,' she tells Harper's Bazaar.

'I didn't even write the f***ing song! He did!'

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