Lady Gaga recently revealed that she was raped when she was 19 years old by a man who was 20 years her senior, and that she had to go through therapy to recover from the incident, the Guardian reported.
The singer made the revelation during her appearance on "The Howard Stern Show," where she admitted having gone through "horrific things" as a teenager, after Stern asked her about the controversy surrounding her song called "Swine," according to E! News.
Gaga said that "Swine," was a song she wrote about rape and demoralization, as well as a show of rage, passion and fury.
"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.'"
According to the 28-year-old "Bad Romance" snger, the person who raped her was a music producer.
When the radio host asked the 28-year-old "Bad Romance" singer if she was "raped by a record producer", Gaga refused to elaborate on the matter and said she only wanted to talk about happy things.
"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," Gaga said when pressed about the incident, according to the Daily Mail.
"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," she added.
During the time, Gaga revealed that she was a 19-year-old girl who attended Catholic school and was naive about a lot of things. At one point, the singer said she even told herself "Oh, is this just the way adults are?"
The singer also admitted that the reason why she didn't want to talk about the event was because she did not want to be "defined by it." She didn't want people to think that what has happened to her in the past is the reason or all the "creative intelligent things" she has done, the singer told Stern and Robin Quivers, according to E! News.
"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."
