Crazed Lady Gaga Fan Charged with Animal Cruelty

Amanda Barnes, a 20-year-old Lady Gaga fan from Oklahoma City, is being charged with animal cruelty. Authorities believe that she killed her relatives' 15-year-old tabby cat.

According to KFOR, relatives found Barnes in an outfit that she had planned to wear to a Lady Gaga concert, a long coat and streaks of cat blood on her face. (She may have been inspired by Gaga's 2009 MTV Video Music Awards performance of "Paparazzi," where she faked her own death while her face was smeared in fake blood.)

Relatives called authorities and took Barnes to the hospital, where she threatened a male nurse with a piece of glass.

At the house, investigators found that the cat had been drowned, sliced down the stomach, and eyes mutilated. They also found the cat's liver in a makeup case.

Although Barnes has a history of depression, those who know her say that such violent behavior was out of character for her.

Lady Gaga has a penchant for wearing outrageous outfits, including the floor-length meat costume she wore to the 2010 Video Music Awards. Gaga verified that the outfit was real meat and that it came from her family's butcher.

Barnes is one disturbed fan who went too far to emulate her idol. It's one thing to wear a costume with fake blood. It's quite another to use real cat blood. I doubt Lady Gaga would have condoned the killing of an innocent household pet.

This is not the first time a cat has suffered at the hands of a crazed fan. In October 2009, a Miley Cyrus fan was so upset about the pop star's departure from Twitter that she threatened to eat her cat if Cyrus didn't reopen her account by Nov. 16.

As the Twitter user claimed, "Fuzzy's life his hanging by a thread and will end if I do not achieve my goal. Ultimately, Miley is the only one with the power to save Fuzzy. Use #mileysavefuzzy on Twitter to raise awareness." (We never found out if this fan followed through on her threat to eat poor Fuzzy.)

Both Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus seem to take a lot of flack for fan behavior. This month, a 10-year-old Cyrus fan got in trouble at school for drawing a picture of Cyrus smoking the infamous salvia bong. The teacher sent the student out to the hall for 30 minutes to "reflect on what she did wrong."