Lady Gaga Talks To Oprah About Her Personal Trauma, Self-Harm, And Choosing Kindness

Nov 07, 2019 by apost team

Lady Gaga opened up to Oprah about her life and struggles as she continues to become a champion of her career. The entertainer went into detail about the pain and emotional trauma she has suffered on the road to stardom and how her accomplishments push her to keep going. 

In an interview for Elle Magazine, Oprah sat down with Lady Gaga to talk about her experience in and out of the public eye. "I have been traumatized in a variety of ways by my career over the years from many different things, but I survived, and I’ve kept going," Gaga said. 

The 33-year-old dropped out of NYU'S Tisch School of the Arts after a year and a carried a keyboard from gig to gig. She was finally signed to a record label and became Lady Gaga. 

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From there the pop star has been launched to insurmountable success. "I think as my career has grown and changed and I’ve done different things, I’ve become very mindful of my position in the world and my responsibility to humanity and to those who follow me," Gaga said to Oprah. 

More recently, Gaga took home an Oscar for best original song in the movie "A Star Is Born." However, when Gaga looks at her oscar she doesn't see success.

"When I looked at that Oscar, I saw pain. I don’t know that anyone understood it when I said it in the room, but I understood it."

The award-winner elaborated further saying:

"I have PTSD. I have chronic pain. Neuropathic pain trauma response is a weekly part of my life. I’m on medication; I have several doctors. This is how I survive. But you know what, Oprah? I kept going, and that kid out there or even that adult out there who’s been through so much, I want them to know that they can keep going, and they can survive, and they can win their Oscar."

Gaga also expressed how she used self-harm as a way to cope with her pain. "I was a cutter for a long time, and the only way that I was able to stop cutting and self-harming myself was to realize that what I was doing was trying to show people that I was in pain instead of telling them and asking for help." 

Throughout all of Gaga's ups and downs, she sees kindness as her guiding light when accepting a difficult task or challenge.

"I believe life is asking of us to accept the challenge. Accept the challenge of kindness. It’s hard in a world the way that we are; we have a very, very grave history. We’re in trouble, and we have been before. But I think life asks us amid these challenges, this hatred, this tragedy, this famine, this war, this cruelty: Can you be kind and can you survive?"

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