Lady Gaga Says She Was Raped

12/03/2014
. (Radio.com) Lady Gaga is claiming she was sexually abused by her former music producer, following in the footsteps of Kesha earlier this year. In a recent radio interview (via E Online), Gaga said she was raped as a teenager, though she doesn't specifically name who it was.

"I went through some horrific things that I'm able to laugh [at] now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years," the singer said. "My music's been wonderful for me.

"But, you know, I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19. I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'' I was very naive."

"I wrote a song called 'Swine.' The song is about rape," she said. "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. 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.'" Read more here.

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