"I Was R-aped At 19 By A Music Producer" — Lady Gaga Reveals

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Singer Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped at the age of 19 by a music producer who was 41 at the time.

Now 28, Gaga reveals she kept the incident secret because she was scared to tell anyone.

She said:

"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. 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 naïve."

"I'll be damned if somebody's gonna say that every creatively intelligent thing that I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead who did that to me,I'm going to take responsibility for all my pain looking beautiful. All the things that I've made out of my strife, I did that.

"I saw him one time in a store and I was so paralyzed by fear It took me a long time to talk about it. I didn't tell anybody. I was like you know what, all this drinking and nonsense, you have to go to the source or it won't go away."