LADY GAGA RAPED

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Gaga - whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - went on to confess that her religion held her back from expressing what had happened to her at the age of 19.

In December 2014, Lady Gaga told Howard Stern that she was raped by an older record producer when she was 19 years old. The artist's single, "Swine," is about the incident and she has gone on to become a spokesperson about sexual assault awareness.

The singer was explaining the meaning behind the song “Swine” when Stern said the song suggested that an incident of sexual assault had taken place.

After some more discussion with Stern, Gaga said she was traumatized by the rape.

She later explained that she didn’t tell anybody about the incident, adding that she refused to be defined by the rape.

CONVERSATION BETWEEN STERN AND LADY GAGA

Stern: “You keep alluding to… Were you raped by a record producer?”

Gaga: “I don’t want to… Happy times!”

Stern: “I feel that happened to you. Seriously.”

Gaga: “I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. And it – to be fair, I was about 19. So, you know – I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened. I was going, ‘Oh, is this just the way adults are?’ … I was very naive.”

“It happens every day. It’s really scary and it’s sad. It didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later. It hit me so hard. I was so traumatized by it that I was like, ‘Just keep going.’ Because I just had to get out of there… I wasn’t even willing to admit that anything had even happened.”

“I don’t want to be defined by it. I’ll be damned if somebody’s going to say that every creatively intelligent thing I’ve ever done is all boiled down to one dickhead that did that to me.”