One of the most respected and most talented women in the music industry, Lady Gaga, has hinted to an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday, December 2, that she was a victim of sexual assault.
When the subject of rape came up in a discussion about the controversy over Gaga's SXSW show last March where she featured a "vomit painter" throwing up green paint all over her and the stage.
When she was asked what inspired the stunt, she revealed, "What I thought was, I wrote a song called 'Swine.' The song is about rape, 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.'"
Stern then asked if she was "raped by a record producer" to which she answered, "I went through some horrific things. I'm able to laugh now because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years." She continued, "To be fair, I was about 19...I went to Catholic school, and then all this crazy stuff happened.'"
When Stern asked whether she ever confronted the man, Gaga replied, "I think it would terrify me. It would paralyze me. I saw him one time in a store, and I was so paralyzed by fear. Because it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I went, 'Wow, that was really messed up.'" More than that, the alleged guy even told people that they dated. "You were 20 years older than me. I was a kid. How was that a date? It took me a long time to feel strong about it. I didn't tell anybody. And I didn't even tell myself for the longest time. And then I was like, you know what, all this drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source. Otherwise it just won't go away."
