US pop singer Lady Gaga has opened up about being sexually assaulted at the age of 19 by a music producer in her recently released documentary.
The Bad Romance singer revealed that such an incident eventually caused her to have a total psychotic break. Previously, she had revealed that she was raped by an industry producer when she was starting out in the business and this caused post-traumatic stress disorder that she still deals with, even if she says it is now under control.
“I was 19 years old and I was working in the business and a producer said to me, ‘Take your clothes off,’” she said in the documentary “The Me You Can’t See,” which was co-created by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry for the Apple TV+ platform.
“I said no. And I left,” Gaga recalled by adding that they told her they were going to burn all her music. “They didn’t stop asking me and then I just froze and I just… I don’t even remember,” she said in tears.
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The 35-year-old, who has never revealed the identity of her rapist, said she would continue to keep his name from the public because she does “not ever want to face that person again.”
Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, said that the producer “dropped me off pregnant on a corner by my parents’ house,” and that she had been “locked away in a studio for months.”
She revealed that it was only years later, when an anxiety attack led her to the hospital, that she realized she had post-traumatic stress disorder. “I had a total psychotic break and for a couple of years I was not the same girl,” Gaga said.
