Lady Gaga is getting candid about being a survivor of sexual assault.
The 35-year-old pop star visitors on the premiere episode of Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry‘s new Apple TV+ unscripted collection, The Me You Can’t See, which launches Friday, Might 21 and options conversations about psychological well being. Throughout her phase, Girl Gaga shared particulars from a time when she discovered she was pregnant following nonconsensual intercourse.
“I used to be 19 years previous, and I used to be working within the enterprise, and a producer mentioned to me, ‘Take your garments off,'” the Oscar winner recalled. “And I mentioned no. And I left, they usually instructed me they have been going to burn all of my music. They usually did not cease. They did not cease asking me, and I simply froze and I—I do not even bear in mind.” This brought on the performer to interrupt down in tears.
Girl Gaga, who defined she has determined to not title the producer as a result of she by no means needs to face him once more, went on to share that the trade is abusive and harmful. She described a time years later when she went to a hospital for ache and numbness, and she or he was stunned when the hospital despatched a psychiatrist to see her, reasonably than a medical physician.