Lady Gaga’s dog walker says she now forgives her friends who “had suicidal thoughts” and “didn’t know how to be there” after she was shot dead.
“I was beaten, strangled, shot and left to die on the sidewalk, bleeding and gasping for life,” Ryan Fisher, 41, said Monday when he was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the shooting.
“You shot me and left me for dead and both of our lives changed forever,” he told gunman James Howard Jackson in a statement. shared on social networks.
Fisher described the “life-changing, earth-shattering” physical injuries that occurred outside the “shallow” star’s Hollywood home on February 24, 2021, including a “collapsed lung after a collapsed lung” and a “partial removal.” remembered
But his “darkest hours,” he said, “come when I feel like it lost and abandoned and mourn for a life and dogs that sacrificed myself.”
This includes “losing her career” caring for Gaga’s French bulldogs – two of which were taken away but later returned – as well as all her savings and key “friendships”, which she did not identify.
Fischer detailed some of the physical injuries, including “collapse of lung after lung collapse” and “partial removal.”
The psychological pain was more than “life-changing, earth-shattering,” he told the court.
This left him “over a year traveling aimlessly through the country, because I was in debt and thought of killing myself, and I struggled with my identity and how to get through such a life-changing, earth-shattering event,” she said.
Fisher told the court that she now has a “deeper love for her friends and family” and said she “forgave friends who didn’t know how to be there for me during my long recovery.”
“They beat me, they strangled me, they shot me and left me to die on the sidewalk bleeding and they choked me to take my life,” said Ryan Fisher, 41, who also shared on the Internet rgan in a touching statement to the victim.
In it, she poignantly admitted that she had “considered suicide” after “losing her career, friendships, sense of self and savings”.
His “darkest hours,” he said, “were when I felt lost and abandoned, mourning my life and the dogs that sacrificed me.”
Fisher said in court that she now has a “deeper love for her friends and family” and that she “forgave friends who didn’t know how to be with me and who didn’t know how to be there for me during this long recovery.”
Fisher also told the shooter that he was working on a “sorry” for him as well.
He thanked his gunman for “not killing the dogs, not harming them”, adding: “I don’t think I could live with myself if they died.”
It was unclear which camp Gaga, whose real name is Stephanie Germanotta, fell into. The singer did not name the victim in the impact statement, although she did refer to her dogs, Asia, Koji and Gustav, with affection.
Abandoned by his friends, he found “strangers who became family” supporting him instead.
Fisher also told the shooter that he was working on a “sorry” for him as well.
“I also want to say thank you, thank you for not killing the dogs – for not harming them” he and his partners took before getting them back safely a few days later.
“They were returned and returned to their mother,” he said, the closest he has come to identifying Gaga, who was in Italy at the time of the attack.
“I don’t think I would have lived with myself if they had died,” he told the canine court.
He slammed his statement for “how guns have affected my life and countless others and continue to harm our society.”
“There’s no point in fearing for your life when you’re at school, in churches, in clubs or taking dogs for an evening walk,” he said.
If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free, confidential crisis counseling you can call If you live outside the five boroughs, you can call the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit: SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.
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