Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped when she was a teenager.
During an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday, the pop star
divulged that she was assaulted when she was around 19 years old, and
that the incident inspired one of her songs.
When Stern asked her about her provocative performance of her song
"Swine" at SXSW earlier this year, in which she recruited "vomit
artist" Millie Brown to expel green liquid on her, Gaga said that the
act tied into the song's theme, which is about "rape" and
"demoralization."
"The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain
that I wanted to release," the pop star said. "And I said to myself,
'I want to sing this song while I'm ripping hard on a drum kit, and
then I want to get on a mechanical bull'—which is probably one of the
most demoralizing things that you can put a female on in her
underwear—'and 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 as much as I could degrade myself, and look how beautiful it
is when I do.'"
"You keep alluding to ... were you raped by a record producer?" Stern asked her.
Gaga initially hesitated answering the question, responding, "I don't
want to ... Happy times! Let's talk about happy things!"
(NY daily news)
This woman seriously needs therapy. There seem to be many issues she's
having difficulty handling. You don't need to turn into a "sex-kitten"
to get back at the one who hurt you...on the contrary, you are
destroying yourself.
She needs help.
