Lady GaGa Reveals She Was Raped When She Was Teen
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The Monster ringleader tells Howard Stern that she endured sexual assault when she was 19 and just graduated from Catholic school.

AceShowbiz - Lady GaGa opened up about a sexual assault she endured years ago. The Mother Monster made the shocking revelation during a radio interview with Howard Stern when she addressed the controversy surrounding her "Swine" performance at SXSW where artist Millie Brown vomited paint on her.

"I wrote a song called 'Swine.' The song is about rape. The song is about demoralization. The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release," she explained. "I want this chick to throw up on me in front of the world so that I can tell them ... 'You could never, ever degrade as much as I could degrade myself...' "

GaGa was initially reluctant to address the assault. "I don't...I don't want to..." she said. "Happy times! Let's talk about happy things!" But after being prodded by the host, she dished on, "I was about 19. I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'...I was very naive."

"It happens every day, and it's really scary, and it's sad. It didn't affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later. It hit me so hard. I was so traumatized by it that I was like, 'Just keep going.' Because I just had to get out of there," she said, adding that she "wasn't even willing to admit that anything had even happened."

"I don't want to be defined by it," she reasoned. "I'll be damned if somebody's gonna say that every creatively intelligent thing that I ever did is all boiled down to one d**khead who did that to me."

GaGa didn't name who her rapist was, but she revealed that the man told "people that we used to date!" "I saw him one time in a store and I was so paralyzed by fear," she recalled. "Because it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I went, 'Wow, that was really messed up.' "

"You were 20 years older than me. I was a kid. How is that a date?" she said. "It took me a long time to feel strong about it. ... I don't know what I was thinking. I didn't tell anybody. And I didn't even tell myself for the longest time. And then I was like, 'You know what? All this drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source, otherwise it just won't go away. It will not go away."

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