TW for rapeLady Gaga opens up about being raped: “I was a shell of my former self”“I wasn&rsqu

TW for rapeLady Gaga opens up about being raped: “I was a shell of my former self”“I wasn’t even willing to admit that anything had even happened" "During an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday, Lady Gaga told the radio host she was sexually assaulted when she was 19, but that she kept the rape to herself for a number of years. The performer shared her story during a conversation about her widely criticized performance at South by Southwest, when she had an artist vomit neon green liquid on her chest during a rendition of her song “Swine.” As Gaga told Stern, the song and performance were meant to convey degradation and the demoralization of sexual assault.“The song is about rape. The song is about demoralization. The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release,” Gaga said. “I said, ‘I want this chick to throw up on me in front of the world so I can tell them, you know what, you can never degrade me as much as I can degrade myself, and look how beautiful it is when I do.”“I was a shell of my former self at one point,” Gaga said. “I was 19. I went to Catholic school and then all of this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, ‘Oh, is this just the way adults are?’”“I don’t want to be defined by it,” she added. “I’ll be damned if somebody’s going to say that every creatively intelligent thing I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead that did that to me. I’m going to take responsibility for all my pain looking beautiful and all I’ve made out of my strife.”Read the full piece hereIf you are a survivor or know a survivor who needs help: RAINN -- source link

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