In an interview with Howard Stern, Lady Gaga spoke publicly for the first time about the incident
Lady Gaga claimed in a recent interview that she was sexually assaulted by a producer when she was 19.
Last year, Gaga sang “Swine” at South-by-Southwest, while covered in
colored vomit. She told Howard Stern on his morning show Tuesday that
the performance was meant to demonstrate that a man “could never, ever
degrade me as much as I degrade myself.
” The singer went on to say that
she had been raped by an older man when she was a “very naive” teenager.
The incident made her “a shell of [her] former self” and the true
gravity didn’t hit her until years later. But she has since sought
therapy.
Gaga has not publicly spoken about the assault before, and said
Tuesday that she didn’t “want to be defined” by the incident. “I’ll be
damned if somebody’s gonna say that every creatively intelligent thing
that I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead who did that to me,”
she said.
Gaga declined to name the producer who allegedly assaulted her, but Kesha’s lawyer is claiming on Twitter
that it was Dr. Luke and says he will depose Gaga in Kesha’s ongoing
sexual assault lawsuit against the producer. Gaga’s representatives call
the assertion that Dr. Luke was her assailant “ridiculous” and “utterly
incomprehensible.”
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