Grammy winner Lady Gaga recalls trauma of being raped

Lady Gaga

Grammy and Oscar-winning singer Lady Gaga has opened up about her trauma of being raped, while speaking on Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry's series, The Me You Can't See. Appearing in the first episode of the five-part series, Gaga remembers being 19 when a producer threatened to burn her music if she didn't take her clothes off. "They didn't stop asking me, and then I just froze, and I just don't even remember," the singer, 35, recalls, according to reports.

She says she isn't comfortable naming her assailant, adding, "I do not ever want to face that person again." Gaga first spoke about her sexual assault in a 2014 radio interview with Howard Stern. She opened up about her PTSD diagnosis in 2016.

On The Me You Can't See, she says her pain manifested in a physical way. "And then I was sick for weeks and 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, ‘cause I was vomiting and sick, ‘cause I had been abused. I was locked away in a studio for months (sic)," Gaga recalls. The singer says she shares her story not to garner sympathy but to trigger empathy in others.

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