Lady Gaga has opened up about her mental health and the struggles she went through after the horror of being raped as a teenager. The singer and actress discussed her experienced in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
She first spoke about her rape in 2014 and has discussed the trauma of this little by little over the years, before revealing in this interview how it led to a psychotic break.
“I was 19 years old and I was working in the business and a producer said to me ‘take your clothes off’,” Lady Gaga said during an appearance on Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry‘s Apple TV+ series ‘The Me You Can’t See’.
“I said ‘no’ and I left and they told me they were going to burn all my music and they didn’t stop. They didn’t stop asking me and I just froze and I just… I don’t even remember.”
“I do not ever want to face that person again. This system is so abusive, it’s so dangerous.”
Lady Gaga’s post-rape trauma
The artist went on to discuss the effects she felt after this incident, including the fact that she ended up pregnant.
“I couldn’t feel my own body,” she said. “First I felt full-on pain, then I felt numb, and then I was sick for weeks after.
I realised that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner, at my parent’s house, because I was vomiting and sick. Because I had been being abused and I was locked away in a studio for months.”
“I had a total psychotic break and, for a couple years, I was not the same girl. The way that I feel when I feel pain was how I felt after I was raped.
