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Lady Gaga reveals she has PTSD from being raped at 19
the singer got candid about mental illness for LGBT youth

(Screenshot via ‘Today’ show.)
During her Black Friday visit to the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBT youth, Lady Gaga revealed to the “Today” show that she suffers from PTSD stemming from being raped at 19.
“I suffer from a mental illness. I suffer from PTSD. I’ve never told anyone that before, so here we are,” the 30-year-old singer says.
“But the kindness that’s been shown to me by doctors, as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.” Gaga continued. “I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.”
The “Million Reasons” singer opened up about her rape on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2014 saying she had kept quiet about the incident because she didn’t want it to define her.
“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,” Lady Gaga told Stern. “I’m going to take responsibility for all my pain looking beautiful and all the things that I’ve made out of my strife. I did that.”
While speaking with the LGBT youth, Gaga said meditation has helped her manage her trauma.
“I don’t have the same kind of issues that you have, but I have a mental illness and I struggle with that every day so I need my mantra to help keep me relaxed,” Lady Gaga says.
Lady Gaga’s visit to the center was for the Share Kindness campaign, a collaboration between NBC and her Born This Way Foundation.
Watch her visit below.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
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