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Gaga, now 35, gave details of the assault in an
interview for the Apple TV+ documentary "The Me You Can't See"
about mental health and the long term effects of trauma.
"I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, 'Take
your clothes off.' And I said no. I left, and they told me they
were going to burn all of my music. And they didn't stop. They
didn't stop asking me, and I just froze and I -- I don't even
remember," said the singer, who first revealed the sexual
assault in 2014.
"First, I felt full-on pain, then I went numb. I was sick for
weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks after, and I realized that
it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me
dropped me off, pregnant, on a corner," she added.
The "Star is Born" singer and actress said she suffered "a total
psychotic break and for a couple of years I was not the same
girl."
Gaga refused to name the person who raped her.
"I understand this #MeToo movement, I understand that some
people feel really comfortable with this, and I do not. I do not
ever want to face that person ever again," she said.
Gaga in 2012 created the Born this Way Foundation for people
struggling with mental health issues.
She said the process of healing was slow.
"Even if I have six brilliant months, all it takes is getting
triggered once to feel bad," she said.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Editing by Nick Zieminski)
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