During an interview with Howard Stern on his radio show Tuesday, the singer recalled being sexually harassed and assaulted when she was coming up in the music industry.
Gaga said that most of
the men she's worked with in the studio had been inappropriate at one
time or another, barring exceptions like producer RedOne, who worked
with Gaga on her debut album "The Fame," and singer Tony Bennett, with
whom she's collaborated.
"That's why that album
was successful, because I was able to write some music that wasn't made
while I had the fear of God in me, pulling my skirt down in a studio
because men were shoving their hands up my dress," Gaga told Stern.
It's "still bad now. Not just for me. Think about all those young girls
that are 16 in New York, (or) 19, going, 'I met this record producer
and he's going to make me a star, he said he worked with Beyonce.' ...
It's all a big lie."
When Stern pointedly
asked Gaga if she was raped by a record producer, the singer replied
that she's gone through "some horrific things."
"I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years," Gaga said. "My music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive."
Afterward, it took the singer years to acknowledge what happened.
Gaga's admission came about after Stern brought up her performance of
her song "Swine" at the South by Southwest festival earlier this year.
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