Lady Gaga Revealed She Was Raped As A Teenager
Lady Gaga was spotted in New York,promoting The Hunting Ground, a documentary on campus rape, on Thursday,in an interview with TalkTimes . The ‘Till it happens to you ‘ artist revealed she was raped as a teenager. She said
‘The only person in this scenario that can heal you is yourself, and that is the complicated process.’
‘I didn’t tell anyone for I think seven years,’ she explained.
‘I didn’t know how to even think about it, I didn’t know how to accept it, I didn’t know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault. It was something that really changed my life. It changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed thoughts.’
‘After it happened, I’m like, ‘But what did I do in my life to bring this upon myself?’
‘Because of the way that I dress, and the way that I’m provocative as a person, I thought that I had brought it on myself in some way – that it was my fault.’
However, the ‘Born This Way’ hitmaker said she’s since turned her pain into new-found strength and resolve.
‘When somebody says to me, ‘Oh, that happened to you?’ ‘Oh, did that damage you?’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘You don’t know who the f**k I am now! You don’t want to meet me in an alleyway. What I’ve been through.’
‘You can own your pain and it can be a good part of you.’
‘I’m here because when I look out onto the sea of beautiful young faces that I get to sing and dance for, I see a lot of people who have secrets that are killing them.
‘We don’t want you to keep your pain inside and let it rot like an old apple on your counter, you know? It’s like, just get rid of all that trash. Let’s get rid of it together.’
‘It’s really hard sometimes for women in music. It’s like a f*cking boys club that we just can’t get into.’
‘I’m here because when I look out onto the sea of beautiful young faces that I get to sing and dance for, I see a lot of people who have secrets that are killing them.
‘We don’t want you to keep your pain inside and let it rot like an old apple on your counter, you know? It’s like, just get rid of all that trash. Let’s get rid of it together.’
Billboard named Gaga as the Woman of The Year and she gave an acceptance speech,saying;
‘Women provide a wisdom to music that is very unique and special,’ she continued.
‘It is a perspective no one else can have because we bear life. And because we go through things no one else goes through. And because it’s right. Because we’re all equal.’
She ended her speech with a message to those who doubted her, saying: ‘I couldn’t wait to prove you wrong.’
‘When somebody says to me, ‘Oh, that happened to you?’ ‘Oh, did that damage you?’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘You don’t know who the f**k I am now! You don’t want to meet me in an alleyway. What I’ve been through.’
‘You can own your pain and it can be a good part of you.’