Lady Gaga Reveals She Was Raped As A Teenager By A Music Producer 20 Years Her Senior.

Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped as a teenager. The 28-year old singer admits that she went through some horiffic things when she was 19 and relied on alot of mental and physical therapy to help her heal. Talking on the Howard Stern Show Lady Gaga confirmed that she was raped by a music producer 20-years her senior.

                     Lady Gaga on an MTV show back in 2005 when she would have been about 19

When asked about the rape she initially said: 'I don't.....I don't want to......Happy times! Let's talk about happy things. She said.

But when the radio host pressed her on the issue she said: ' I went through some horrific things that I am able to laugh ''at'' now, because I have gone through a lot of mental, physical, emotional therapy to heal over the years. 'My music's been wonderful for me. But, you know, Iwas a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. 'To be fair, I was about 19. I attended Catholic school and thenall this crazy stuff happened, I was going, ''Oh, is this just the way adults are?....I was very naive.''

Asked if she had ever confronted the rapist, who was 20 years older than her, she said: 'I think it would terrify me. It would paralyse me. 'I saw him one time in a store and i was so paralysed by fear. Because it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I went , ''Wow, that was really messed up''.

Lady Gaga who is currently in a relationship with actor Taylor Kinney said she did not tell anybody about the incident at that time but eventually decided to seek help from a therapist. ''I don't know what i was thinking, I didn't tell anybody and I didn't even tell myself for the longest time''. And i was like all these you know what all these drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source, otherwise it just wont go away, She said.