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■ L ady Gaga says she’s planning to take a “rest” from music and “slow down for a moment for some healing.”

The pop star was in Toronto on Friday for a pair of concerts and to premiere a Netflix documentary about herself, Gaga: Five Foot Two. The film, playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, chronicles her life, February’s Super Bowl performance and her struggle with chronic pain. Gaga teared up speaking to reporters about her health issues. “It’s hard,” she said, “but it’s liberating too.” She said later in an interview that she will finish her current tour, which runs through December, and then take some time for herself. “When this tour is over I will take a little downtime from myself, and then I’ll get back to doing what I love,” she said. “I’m never not making music. I’m never not creating. I just am excited to spend some time reflecting on that past 10 years and getting excited about what I want to create next.” The singer said at the earlier news conference that she’ll still be creating during a break from music. “It doesn’t mean I don’t have some things up my sleeve,” Gaga said. Gaga recently shot a remake of A Star is Born, co-starring Bradley Cooper.

■ In a candid and pointed new book, Hillary Clinton relives her defeat to Donald Trump, admitting to personal mistakes and defending campaign strategy even as her return to the stage refocuses attention on a race many Democrats still can’t believe they lost. Clinton is unsparing in her criticism of Trump and also lays out some of the factors she believes contributed to her loss: interference from Russian hackers, accusations leveled at her by former FBI Director James Comey, a divisive primary battle with Bernie Sanders, and her gender. She also addresses common criticisms of her campaign, including the idea that she didn’t have a compelling narrative for seeking the presidency and that she ignored Midwestern turf where Trump picked up enough white working-class voters to win several battleground states. “Some critics have said that everything hinged on me not campaigning enough in the Midwest,” Clinton writes in the book What Happened. “And I suppose it is possible that a few more trips to Saginaw or a few more ads on the air in Waukesha could have tipped a couple of thousand voters here or there. But let’s set the record straight: we always knew that the industrial Midwest was crucial to our success, just as it had been for Democrats for decades, and contrary to the popular narrative, we didn’t ignore those states,” she wrote.

Lady Gaga