14 DAY TRIAL // Time and time again, Gaga has been forced to deal with allegations that she’s ripping off Madonna in both music and image. As it turns out, the two have more in common than said claims: they are actually related.
In what must be one of the oddest coincidences ever, it turns out that Gaga and Madonna are cousins – distant cousins but relatives no less, the Boston Globe reports.
Credit for the discovery goes to Chris Child, who got a hunch there may be something the two had in common and who single-handedly set out to find it.
“According to Boston celebrity genealogist Chris Child, who painstakingly pores over documents searching for connections between notable people at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the two singers share more than a penchant for reinvention: Lady Gaga and Madonna are related,” the Boston Globe writes.
After doing his painstaking research, Child discovered the two are “ninth cousins once removed.”
“He presented a handwritten piece of paper, which traced the relations of Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone and Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta back to a French immigrant farming couple who came to Quebec in the 1600s,” the publication says.
“When I saw that Lady Gaga had French Canadian ancestry I thought there might be something there,” Child explains.
He was not wrong in his hunch.
In other Lady Gaga – Madonna- related news, in a recent interview, the “Born This Way” star dismissed claims that she was looking up at the Queen of Pop for inspiration, or even shamelessly stealing from her.
She also stressed one more time that she was not just a front for another product of the pop machine: she was 100% original, as we also informed you at the time.
“I have been quite open about it. And still nobody seems to have a clue. I’m not going to start churning out what you expect. If you’re looking for me to be something that isn’t there, STOP LOOKING. I am not that. I am not created. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can [expletive] off,” she said.