Lady Gaga Rape Claims Started On 'The Howard Stern Show'; 'Swine' Song About Rape
Lady Gaga rape claims roared after her appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."
On December 2, Lady Gaga reportedly revealed she was raped when she was 19 years old.
The host Howard Stern and Lady Gaga were discussing the controversy that arose at the SXSW music festival in March, when Millie Brown vomited neon green paint all over Gaga during her show, while she was singing her single "Swine."
The pop diva revealed that "Swine" is about rape. "I wrote a song called 'Swine.' The song is about rape. The song is about demoralization. The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release," she explained.
Gaga continued, "I said to myself, 'I want to sing this song while I'm ripping hard on a drum kit, and then I want to get on a mechanical bull, which is probably one of the most demoralizing things that you can put a female on in her underwear, and I want this chick to throw up on me in front of the world so that I can tell them, 'You know what? You could never, ever degrade me as much as I could degrade myself,' and look how beautiful it is when I do.'"
When the conversation seemed that "Born This Way" singer's song "Swine" is based on life experience, Stern pushed the issue, asking, "Were you raped by a record producer?"
The 28-year-old popstar answered, "I went through some horrific things, and I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years. My music's been wonderful for me. But, you know, I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19. I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'"
Later, the singer discussed the trauma, "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."
Lady Gaga told the interviewer that she doesn't want to discuss the event in the past because she didn't want to let it define her or her music.
"I'll be damned if somebody's gonna say that every creatively intelligent thing that I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead who did that to me," she said. "I'm going to take responsibility for all my pain looking beautiful. All the things that I've made out of my strife, I did that."
After this interview, Mark Geragos, a lawyer representing pop singer Kesha in her lawsuit against music producer Dr.Luke for alleged sexual and verbal abuse, tweeted a link to a story about Gaga's comments and followed up by tweet "Guess who the rapist was?"
Representatives of Dr. Luke or Lukasz Gottwald in real life, denied Geragos' accusations. They released a statement to E! News, saying "Luke met Lady Gaga twice for less than half an hour total in those two meetings combined. He has never been alone with her and never touched her. Neither meeting was in that time frame reported."
Guess who the rapists was? https://t.co/MTg0vSE3rr
— Mark Geragos (@markgeragos) December 2, 2014
#namethepervert — Mark Geragos (@markgeragos) December 2, 2014
“@xmichyx: @markgeragos lukasz” #bingo
— Mark Geragos (@markgeragos) December 2, 2014
