Linda Perry claims Lady Gaga doesn’t deserve her Oscar nomination

SONGWRITER Linda Perry has apologised to Lady Gaga after claiming she wasn’t deserving of her Oscar nomination.

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2016 file photo, Lady Gaga arrives at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Gaga’s "Til It Happens to You," the song she wrote with Diane Warren for the sexual assault documentary, "The Hunting Ground," was nominated for an Oscar for best original song on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, FIle)

SONGWRITER Linda Perry has apologised to Lady Gaga after criticising her Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for Til It Happens To You.

“My sincere apologies. I made a mistake to comment. I wasn’t in the room when #TIHTY was being written,” Perry said on Twitter.

“More importantly, I wish the focus to remain on the great importance of the song and the message of the film.”

Earlier, Perry claimed the pop star, 29, wasn’t deserving of the nomination and that Gaga’s collaborator on the song, Diane Warren, deserveed all the glory.

“I have Diane’s original demo with her singing,” Perry, 50, said.

“The only line that has been changed Till you’re at the end, the end of your rope. Originally was Til you got a hole ripped in your soul. So I guess technically one line was changed so sure Gaga possible ‘rewrote’ a line.”

Songwriter Diane Warren.

Linda Perry and Sharon Osbourne.

“But chances are Diane still took part in rewriting that line which means Gaga contributed a few words,” she summarised her thoughts. “Is that writing? Not in my book.”

Perry said Warren possibly enlisted Gaga to “ensure her support in promoting” the tune from The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses across the country.

“If she gave Gaga writing credit it would ensure the support this song needed and deserved,” Perry added.

“And Gaga knows her power. I’m not putting anyone or anything down. I’m stating the truth. I credit Diane for writing this song, it is her experience her pain her words.”

Seemingly aware that her comments would cause a fire on social media, Perry closed out her statements saying, “What good is Twitter if you can’t ruffle some feathers once in a while … #truth.”

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney arrive at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards.

This article was originally published on the New York Post.

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