PHOTOSLady Gaga Was Raped At 19— ‘It Changed Who I Was Completely’
Music megastar Lady Gaga was raped at 19 years old. The singer, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, kept it a secret for years before admitting it to anyone.
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Gaga, 29, spoke candidly about the traumatic event at a TimesTalk Q&A on Dec. 11 about the college campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground, for which she penned a song.
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“I didn’t tell anyone for, I think, seven years,” Gaga revealed. “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’s something that really changed my life, it changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed my thoughts.”
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Gaga admitted to not only the physical pain but the mental and emotional effects that resonate for years and years.
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She also explained feelings of guilt and self-blame saying, “After it happened, I’m like, ‘But what did I do in my life to bring it upon myself?’ Maybe there was some sort of religious guilt attached to it, that I had somehow inspired the violence,” she said. “… For me, because of the way that I dress and the way that I’m provocative as a person, I thought I had brought it upon myself in some way, that it was my fault. I just never even told anyone.”
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