Lady Gaga has opened up about being sexually assaulted when she was 19, becoming pregnant and her mental health struggles. In an emotional interview, she shared disturbing details in Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey’s docuseries The Me You Can’t See, which premiered on Apple TV+.
She said that when she was 19, a producer whom she refused to name, demanded she take her clothes off or he would burn all her music. “I just froze and I don’t even remember,” the singer said of the assault. “And I will not say his name. I understand this Me Too movement, and I understand people feel real comfortable with this, and I do not. I do not ever want to face that person again.”
Gaga said that many years later, she felt a physical pain and sought medical treatment. "I realised that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner by my parents' house because I was vomiting and sick 'cause I'd been being abused," she said, adding, "I was locked away in a studio for months."
In 2017, she revealed that she has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a condition that causes severe pain all over the body. "The way that I feel when I feel pain is how I felt after I was raped. I've had so many MRIs and scans. They don't find nothing, but your body remembers. I couldn't feel anything. I disassociated. It's like your brain goes offline," she said on The Me You Can't See.
“I’m not here to tell my story to you because I want anybody to cry for me. I’m good. But open your heart up for somebody else. Because I’m telling you, I’ve been through it and people need help. So, that’s part of my healing, being able to talk to you,” she said.
