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Lady Gaga opens up about rape, pregnancy at age 19

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/afp/05/22/lady-gaga.jpg"/><figcaption>In this file photo taken on September 24, 2018, singer/actress Lady Gaga attends the premiere of &quot;A Star is Born&quot; at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The artist said in a documentary out Friday that she was raped by a music producer and became pregnant at age 19, an ordeal that eventually caused her to have a &quot;total psychotic break.&quot; Valerie Macon, AFP</figcaption></figure></div>US singer Lady Gaga said in a documentary out Friday that she was raped by a music producer and became pregnant at age 19, an ordeal that eventually caused her to have a &quot;total psychotic break.&quot;The New York artist had previously revealed that she was raped by an industry producer when she was starting out in the business. She said this caused post-traumatic stress disorder that she still deals with, even if she says it is now under control.&quot;I was 19 years old and I was working in the business and a producer said to me: &#x27;Take your clothes off,&#x27;&quot; she said in the documentary &quot;The Me You Can&#x27;t See,&quot; which was co-created by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry for the Apple TV+ platform.&quot;I said no. And I left,&quot; Gaga recounts. &quot;And they told me they were going to burn all my music and they didn&#x27;t stop asking me and then I just froze and I just... I don&#x27;t even remember,&quot; she said in tears.The 35-year-old, who has never revealed the identity of her rapist, said she would continue to keep his name from the public because she does &quot;not ever want to face that person again.&quot;Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, said that the producer &quot;dropped me off pregnant on a corner by my parents&#x27; house,&quot; and that she had been &quot;locked away in a studio for months.&quot;She revealed that it was only years later, when an anxiety attack led her to the hospital, that she realized she had post-traumatic stress disorder.&quot;I had a total psychotic break and for a couple years I was not the same girl,&quot; Gaga said.&quot;It&#x27;s like your brain goes offline and you don&#x27;t know why no one else is panicking but you&#x27;re in an ultra state of paranoia,&quot; Gaga said. &quot;It&#x27;s really a very real thing to feel like there&#x27;s a black cloud that is following you wherever you go telling you that you&#x27;re worthless and should die.&quot;She estimated that it took two and a half years of therapy to get the urge to harm herself under control.&quot;I learned all the ways to pull myself out of it,&quot; she said.

US singer Lady Gaga said in a documentary out Friday that she was raped by a music producer and became pregnant at age 19, an ordeal that eventually caused her to have a "total psychotic break."

US singer Lady Gaga said in a documentary out Friday that she was raped by a music producer and became pregnant at age 19, an ordeal that eventually caused her to have a "total psychotic break."