She told The Howard Stern Show, that after the incident, it took her almost a lifetime to let go.
"I was a shell of my former self at one point," she said. "I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naïve."
She said it took her four or five years to admit to herself of being a victim of rape.
"It wasn't until I was a little bit older that I went, 'Wow, that was really messed up,'" she said.
According to her, it took loads of therapy sessions to help her deal with the horrific past.
Gaga, now 28, says she has never confronted her rapist. "I saw him one time in a store and I was so paralyzed by fear,"
she said. And now, she said, he goes around referring to her as his ex-girlfriend. "You were 20 years older than me," she said. "I was a kid. How is that a date?"
"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."
