Lady Gaga Reveals She Developed PTSD After Being 'Repeatedly Raped' at 19

Lady Gaga is getting candid about her mental health and trauma.

The 33-year-old Joanne singer appeared at the opening night of Oprah Winfrey‘s Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus arena tour on Saturday (January 4) at BB&T Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

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“I was raped repeatedly when I was 19 years old, and I also developed PTSD as a result of being raped and also not processing that trauma,” she revealed during their conversation, saying it was someone she knew growing up.

“I all of a sudden became a star and was traveling the world going from hotel room to garage to limo to stage, and I never dealt with it, and then all of a sudden I started to experience this incredible intense pain throughout my entire body that mimicked the illness I felt after I was raped,” she went on to explain.

She also discussed her fibromyalgia diagnosis, explaining she was in “head-to-toe pain” even while talking to Oprah.

“What’s interesting about it is that I’ve found through neuropsych research and my relationship with my doctors that fibromyalgia can be treated through mental health therapy. And mental health is a medical condition, it should be treated as a medical condition. It should not be ignored.”

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