The shock and awe evoked by Lady GaGa has largely hinged on wacky hairdos and colorful lyrics.
However, during a visit to The Howard Stern Show today, the ‘Cheek To Cheek’ singer opened up about a much darker side to her rise.
She revealed she was raped at age 19.
Full story below…
Via Billboard:
“I went through some horrific things,” Gaga admitted when the topic of rape came up. “I’m able to laugh now because I’ve gone through a lot of mental, physical and emotional therapy.”
Gaga indicated that when she was a teenager, a producer roughly 20 years her elder took advantage of her.
“I wrote a song called ‘Swine’; the song is about rape,” Gaga said about the ARTPOP track. “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.”
Stern dug deeper and Gaga expanded on the topic. “I wasn’t even willing to admit that anything had even happened,” she said, as it wasn’t until years later that she came to terms with what happened. “I saw him one time in a store, and I was paralyzed by fear.”
Stern asked, “Were you afraid to go to your father because you thought your father would kill him?” to which Gaga says she cannot reply.
In the end, she found solace in the fact that she was helped through therapy, maturation and more positive relationships.
Check out the audio clip below…
Wow.
Define… r***, Gaga.
#Justsaying
I’ll define c***. YOU
Y’all know right this is a lie?
Attention w****
NOTHING SHE DOES OR SAYS SEEMS SINCERE
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I’m glad Gaga is opening up and talking about being r****. There’s soooo many young girls, that go through it and feel like it’s better to keep it a secret. Speak up! It encourages others.
lmao it seems like everyones been “r****.” I feel bad for the ones who have actually been brutally r****.
Po’Thang! This child been going threw a lot. Already flopping on her 3rd album. Dealing with Madonna’s pesty old Pre-AIDDDS generation fans. Having the entire industry bash her. Its been a tough year & a half for Miss Gaga. But, she will & shall keep going. Hopefully, her next era will be ICONIC. And, one to remember. Art/Pop had some decent tracks but overall the album was flavorless, boring & forgettable.
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As for her being r****… Well, everybody I know don’ got r**** or molested. Including ME! What you need to do is forgive & keep it movin’ tbh… When you get r**** or molested. You need to not be afraid & tell someone FRESH AFTER IT HAPPENED. I know its hard but victims have got to stop being afraid. If you want justice for what happened to you… YOU NEED TO TELL IMMEDIATELY. And, you have to be persistent.
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Anyways, Cheers Dahhhhhlings!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMmYCKlHuKM
Stupid a usual. Go and save Mariah career, b****.
Mariah’s Career is doing just fine Dahhhling…
I think she will say and do anything for attention. Just like she was bi or whatever during the FAME era, or cocaine during BTW era, or her being bullied during ArtFlop era, she’ll say anything or whatever to make her a victim. Instead of doing for others that been r****, she had to push a song in it.
And because I said that, her fans will call me a hater, but look at what kind of show she announced it on.
R*** is not something to play about and I know Gaga is sensitive to her fans regardless if she does certain things for attention. If you think Gaga would lie about this for press when her albums have already sank then you’re pathetic.
If it is true, then I feel sorry for her.
I was going to say she was fishing for attention because of the bullying s*** she tried to pull during Born This Gay but thats what people do when someone popular/famous or that has lots of respect is accused of r***. I really hope she isn’t lying or I’ll lose the tiny bit of respect I still have for her.
she’s such an attention ho. she always find a way to insert herself it the social issue of the day. no r*** is a hot topic she’s using it for publicity stunt. GTFOH
This makes me wanna cry this is so horrible and shouldn’t be taken as a joke. You little b****** will respect gaga.
#Monster4Life #GagaIsTheTrueQueen #QueenOfPop2015
You people are disgusting! I feel bad for her and I don’t think she’s lying about it either
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This must be common amongst females in the industry, Some are just more outspoken than others I guess
Remember Kesha’s mom said her and lady gaga were gonna come forward about Kesha and lady gaga being r**** this was way before bill cosby and all these other r*** incidents
At least it wasn’t Bill Cosby
I feel sorry for GaGa I hope she receives mental & physical help she deserves!!
Not again..this b*tch should take a break rather spewing garbage to sell her music.
WTF is wrong with you people posting headlines that are literally untrue? Did you not listen to the interview? She never said she was ‘r****’ only that she was sexually harassed in some way.
I was wondering when she’d say some bullshiit like this. Lying asss white trash. Bye Flopga.
If anything Gaga promoted r*** by working with R. Kelly and Terry Richardson.
The first thing y’all can think about is she wants attention for Artpop like sit down we all know that flopped hard and so does Gaga. I actually believe her, people who are r**** go through very traumatic experience they at ashamed of themselves. There’s a lot of pain there, it takes a lot of courage to come out and say I was r****, I believe her!! I also believe that this has happened to lot of other girls in the industry there are just to afraid or to ashamed to say it
Was it by Bill Cosby? Lls just jokes!