Lady GaGa has praised Amy Winehouse – and admitted that she has “deep love” for the British singer.

In an interview with PopEater, Lady GaGa claimed Winehouse had helped pave the way for her own recent chart success.

"I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse. Because of Amy, very strange girls like me go to prom with very good-looking guys,” she said.

"She's a different kind of woman... I don't believe that what I do is very digestible, and somehow Amy was the flu for pop music.

"Everybody got a little bit of the flu and got over it, and fell in love with Amy Winehouse.

"And now, when more flu comes along, it's not so unbearable."

(by Jason Gregory)