Gaga didn't report rape for 7 years
Not that I am a big fan of hers - but maybe her speaking out like this will help raise awareness that abuse victims more often do NOT report immediately.
The story:
"Lady Gaga didnt tell anyone she was raped until seven years after it happened.
The singer spoke very frankly about the traumatic experience she went through at the age of 19 during a TimesTalks Q&A for the campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground, which features a powerful song about the subject by Gaga.
I didnt tell anyone for, I think, seven years, said Gaga, now 29. I didnt know how to even think about it, I didnt know how to accept it, I didnt know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault. Its something that really changed my life, it changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed my thoughts.
She said that in addition to immediate physical pain and lasting mental and emotional effects, she has physically re-experienced the trauma through the years. It can trigger patterns in your body of physical distress, she recalled.
At Thursdays Q&A, she also spoke about the ideas of guilt and self-blame.
After it happened, Im like, But what did I do in my life to bring it upon myself? Maybe there was some sort of religious guilt attached to it, that I had somehow inspired the violence, she said. For me, because of the way that I dress and the way that Im provocative as a person, I thought I had brought it upon myself in some way, that it was my fault. I just never even told anyone.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/12/12/lady-gaga-didnt-tell-anyone-was-raped-until-seven-years-later/?intcmp=hpff
For a more complete version of the story:
https://www.mtv.com/news/2686424/lady-gaga-opens-up-rape/
The story:
"Lady Gaga didnt tell anyone she was raped until seven years after it happened.
The singer spoke very frankly about the traumatic experience she went through at the age of 19 during a TimesTalks Q&A for the campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground, which features a powerful song about the subject by Gaga.
I didnt tell anyone for, I think, seven years, said Gaga, now 29. I didnt know how to even think about it, I didnt know how to accept it, I didnt know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault. Its something that really changed my life, it changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed my thoughts.
She said that in addition to immediate physical pain and lasting mental and emotional effects, she has physically re-experienced the trauma through the years. It can trigger patterns in your body of physical distress, she recalled.
At Thursdays Q&A, she also spoke about the ideas of guilt and self-blame.
After it happened, Im like, But what did I do in my life to bring it upon myself? Maybe there was some sort of religious guilt attached to it, that I had somehow inspired the violence, she said. For me, because of the way that I dress and the way that Im provocative as a person, I thought I had brought it upon myself in some way, that it was my fault. I just never even told anyone.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/12/12/lady-gaga-didnt-tell-anyone-was-raped-until-seven-years-later/?intcmp=hpff
For a more complete version of the story:
https://www.mtv.com/news/2686424/lady-gaga-opens-up-rape/
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