Lady Gaga on Friday described her Oscar performance with rape survivors as the most difficult of her life, saying that she remains in chronic pain from a decade-old assault.
Lady Gaga on Friday described her Oscar performance with rape survivors as the most difficult of her life, saying that she remains in chronic pain from a decade-old assault.
The pop star on Sunday offered an emotional performance of her song, Till It Happens To You, at the film industry’s gala awards, with university students who have experienced rape joining her on stage with arms joined in solidarity. “I was never such a wreck as I was the week before this performance,” Gaga told New York radio station Z100.
Speaking of her rape, she said: “It’s the thing that I am the most ashamed of in my life and I have always felt that it was my fault until this week.”
Gaga, who turns 30 this month, has previously revealed that she was raped by an older man when she was 19. “People don’t know this about me because I don’t share it, and I know they see me as this kind of celebrity that has success and money and the world watching and that I must have no problems.
“But I actually suffer from chronic pain all the time and it’s from this paralysing fear that I’ve experienced for almost 10 years,” she said.
