Lady Gaga’s ‘Most Viral Fan’ Recalls How He Wound Up Onstage With Her During Born This Way Ball

During her Jan. 31, 2013, show of the Born This Way Ball astatine the Toyota Center successful Houston, Lady Gaga pointed straight astatine 1 instrumentality dancing successful the assemblage and gave him a command. “OK, kid successful the orange, travel connected stage,” she said arsenic the assemblage roared. “I spot you trying. Get him up here.”

After the “kid successful the orange” not lone joined her onstage but nailed the choreography to her opus “Scheiße,” footage of the infinitesimal went viral among Gaga’s fanbase, with Little Monsters everyplace praising Gaga for noticing a dedicated instrumentality successful the assemblage and praising the instrumentality for not wasting his infinitesimal successful the spotlight.

Twelve years later, that instrumentality is inactive looking backmost fondly connected his show with Gaga. In an exclusive clip from Spotify shared with Billboard, Atticus Lite — the “kid successful the orange” from the clip, and Gaga’s self-described “most viral fan” — revealed conscionable however his large infinitesimal came to be.

Lite says successful the clip that helium and his friends had made a “pact” not to ticker immoderate clips from the tour, which helium ended up breaking erstwhile helium heard astir the choreography to her show-closer “Scheiße.” “At 1 point, I was [teaching] creation classes successful Austin … and I conscionable kept speechmaking online that the ‘Scheiße’ creation was retired of this world,” helium says. “I went online and I watched it — radical ever inquire maine however I learned the dance, and it was successful my room, successful my underwear., watching YouTube videos.”

Lite and his friends got to Gaga’s amusement aboriginal successful bid to get into the “inner pit” of the audience, and erstwhile “Scheiße” came on, helium started dancing successful his agleam orangish overgarment successful the crowd. When Gaga called connected him, Lite says helium booked it toward the stage. “When I archer you I pushed done that assemblage similar a battering ram,” helium says. “I started to standard the barrier, and the information guards were trying to decipher what was happening, and past they helped maine implicit onto the stage.”

While Lite says helium didn’t consciousness similar helium had “control implicit my body” erstwhile helium started dancing connected the stage, helium inactive managed to execute the choreo and adjacent get a buss from Gaga aft helium offered her flowers thrown by a fan. He past added that the “real magic” happened erstwhile Gaga brought him backstage and told him that she wanted to talk to him aft the show.

“She walks in, and she conscionable said, ‘Oh my god, you are truthful fab,’ which changed my life,” helium recalled. “We got to talking, we took a picture, she signed my jacket, I inactive person it to this day.” In the clip, Lite past pulls retired the celebrated overgarment and reveals that Gaga signed the backmost of it: “Work it, Scheiße. From, Gaga.”

Watch the afloat clip of “the kid successful the orange” recounting his acquisition with Gaga below: