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

During her Jan. 31, 2013, performance of the Born This Way Ball at the Toyota Center in Houston, Lady Gaga pointed directly at one fan dancing in the crowd and gave him a command. “OK, kid in the orange, come on stage,” she said as the crowd roared. “I see you trying. Get him up here.”

After the “kid in the orange” not only joined her onstage but nailed the choreography to her song “Scheiße,” footage of the moment went viral among Gaga’s fanbase, with Little Monsters everywhere praising Gaga for noticing a dedicated fan in the crowd and praising the fan for not wasting his moment in the spotlight.

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Twelve years later, that fan is still looking back fondly on his performance with Gaga. In an exclusive clip from Spotify shared with Billboard, Atticus Lite — the “kid in the orange” from the clip, and Gaga’s self-described “most viral fan” — revealed just how his big moment came to be.

Lite says in the clip that he and his friends had made a “pact” not to watch any clips from the tour, which he ended up breaking when he heard about the choreography to her show-closer “Scheiße.” “At one point, I was [teaching] dance classes in Austin … and I just kept reading online that the ‘Scheiße’ dance was out of this world,” he says. “I went online and I watched it — people always ask me how I learned the dance, and it was in my room, in my underwear., watching YouTube videos.”

Lite and his friends got to Gaga’s show early in order to get into the “inner pit” of the audience, and when “Scheiße” came on, he started dancing in his bright orange jacket in the crowd. When Gaga called on him, Lite says he booked it toward the stage. “When I tell you I pushed through that crowd like a battering ram,” he says. “I started to scale the barrier, and the security guards were trying to decipher what was happening, and then they helped me over onto the stage.”

While Lite says he didn’t feel like he had “control over my body” once he started dancing on the stage, he still managed to execute the choreo and even get a kiss from Gaga after he offered her flowers thrown by a fan. He then added that the “real magic” happened when Gaga brought him backstage and told him that she wanted to speak to him after the show.

“She walks in, and she just said, ‘Oh my god, you are so fab,’ which changed my life,” he recalled. “We got to talking, we took a picture, she signed my jacket, I still have it to this day.” In the clip, Lite then pulls out the famous jacket and reveals that Gaga signed the back of it: “Work it, Scheiße. From, Gaga.”

Watch the full clip of “the kid in the orange” recounting his experience with Gaga below:

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