Lady Gaga’s Handwritten Letter to David Bowie Shows Her Admiration for the Late Icon: ‘How Does He Know I Exist?’

Lady Gaga’s admiration for David Bowie is clear in this handwritten note.

A heartfelt letter from Gaga, 39, to the late Bowie is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s David Bowie Centre, which opened on Saturday, Sept. 13. A fan account shared pictures of the handwritten letter on X, penned on “Haus of Gaga” stationery.

“Dear David Bowie, It was truly an honor to receive an advanced copy of your album. I cried, in fact, listening to each song. How does he know I exist?” the letter begins.

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“I feel as though my entire career has been an artistic plea for you to notice me. I’m finishing my album ARTPOP and am in New York,” Gaga continues, referring to her 2013 album. “I would be grateful and honored to meet you.”

She signs off: “Love + Art, GAGA.”

Gaga’s admiration for Bowie is deep. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, weeks after he died at 69 following a cancer diagnosis, the “Abracadabra” singer paid tribute to him.

Her performance alongside Bowie collaborator Nile Rodgers featured a medley of “Space Oddity,” “Changes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Fashion,” “Fame,” “Let’s Dance” and “Heroes.”

“The world loves you David,” she captioned an Instagram video of her metallic blue eyeshadow application for the performance.

In an interview done before Bowie’s death, Gaga also spoke about when she “fell in love with” Bowie, which happened to be when she lived in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

“I always felt that his glamor was something he was using to express a message to people that was very healing for their souls,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in January 2016.

“He is a true, true artist and I don’t know if I ever went, ‘Oh, I’m going to be that way like this,’ or if I arrived upon it slowly, realizing it was my calling and that’s what drew me to him,” added Gaga.

“I just know that you can use the theater of your imagination to entertain people beyond their wildest dreams and then you can put something inside of that that changes the world, and that to me is when you make something truly great as an artist,” Gaga said comparing her career thus far with the “Starman” singer’s.

“You don’t nail it every time. I definitely don’t, with all my songs, always hit that note. You try. And every once in a while, the world lights on fire with the music.”

The David Bowie Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum features an archive of 90,000 items with 200 items currently on display.