Lady Gaga has revealed that she was
raped as a teenager and said that it took her years of therapy to acknowledge
and start to recover from the trauma.
“I don’t want to be defined by it,”
the pop star said. “I’ll be damned if somebody is going to say that every
creatively intelligent thing I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead that
did that to me.”
Lady Gaga, 28, said that the rape
took place when she was 19 and that she has gone through years of therapy. She
did not go into detail but said that the aggressor was 20 years older than her.
“It happens every day. It’s really
scary and it’s sad and it didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about
four or five years later,” she told radio host Howard Stern.
“I didn’t tell anybody — I didn’t
even tell myself for the longest time,” she said. “Then I was like, you know
what, all this drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source,
otherwise it won’t go away.”
The singer, who later became known
for her gaudy outfits and outspoken social commentary, said that she did not
report the rape. She said she saw her aggressor once more when she ran into him
at a store and that she became “paralyzed by fear.”
Lady Gaga revealed the rape as she
discussed her song “Swine” from her 2013 album “Artpop.” She performed the song
at this year’s South by Southwest festival, where she rode a mechanical bull in
a suggestive fashion and had a collaborator vomit on her.
“The song is about rape. This song
is about demoralization,” Lady Gaga said in her radio interview Tuesday.
“I want this chick to throw up on me in front of
the world, so that I can tell them, you know what? You could never, ever
degrade me as much as I could degrade myself and look how beautiful it is what
I do.”
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