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Lady Gaga: I was “Lonely” and Cocaine Was “My Friend” (VIDEO)

10:39 am, May 4th, 2012

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(Lifetime)

Lady Gaga opened up about her “lonely” post-high school years and past drug addiction on Lifetime’s “The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet” on Thursday.

Gaga, who taped the interview last fall, revealed she was “very depressed when I was 19. I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them.”

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She says she began to “cherish my loneliness,” explaining, “I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had at television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.”

The “Bad Romance” singer continues that she began doing cocaine then because “it was like the drug was my friend. I never did it with other people. It’s such a terrible way to fill that void, because it just adds to that void, because it’s not real.”

Gaga says eventually she “woke up one day and was like, ‘You’re an a**hole. You’re not an artist. If you were a real f***ing artist, you’d be focused on your music. You wouldn’t be spending your money on the white devil.’”

She notes that there’s sort of a ”romanticism around drugs” with aspiring artists, “when really, you’re just a f***ing loser.”

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  • Arcachnar

    Winners do not need drugs. I’m glad she is so open and clean. There’s no romance in using drugs, only hopelessness, sadness and it will ruin your body and mind.

  • Jennifer

    There is a girl who has learned to take the lemons and make lemonade. Good for her!

  • Dont_stop_me_now

    good for her

    now if only more people would figure this out

  • Peaceoutalyssa

    I love Lady gaga she isnt afraid to admit her flaws to the world!! I think she is a very good role model! GO GAGA!! :)

  • Seasha

    I have a few problems with what she is saying here. I know from personal experience that drug addiction is not that simple. You don’t just wake up one day and say, “oh I’m a fuc%ing idiot” and decided not to do drugs ever again. If sobriety was that simple don’t you think a lot more people would give up drugs and alcohol. Drug addiction is not just mental, yes there are psychological aspects to it, but there are also very strong physical aspects to it. An addict is not just going to wake up on day and decide they wont do drugs again becasue by the end of the day the body will be craving the drugs, it’s painful to go through withdrawal of any type of drug your body has become use to which is why so many people have set backs. I get that lady gaga is trying to help people by taking about important issues but things are not as black and white as she likes to make them out to be. Just like how she said that one day she woke up and decided not to be bulimic again because it is bad for your voice. Problems are not that easy to fix and rarely does a person succeed at rehabilitation by waking up one day and deciding that they simply wont do it again.

  • Seasha

    I have a few problems with what she is saying here. I know from personal experience that drug addiction is not that simple. You don’t just wake up one day and say, “oh I’m a fuc%ing idiot” and decided not to do drugs ever again. If sobriety was that simple don’t you think a lot more people would give up drugs and alcohol. Drug addiction is not just mental, yes there are psychological aspects to it, but there are also very strong physical aspects to it. An addict is not just going to wake up on day and decide they wont do drugs again becasue by the end of the day the body will be craving the drugs, it’s painful to go through withdrawal of any type of drug your body has become use to which is why so many people have set backs. I get that lady gaga is trying to help people by taking about important issues but things are not as black and white as she likes to make them out to be. Just like how she said that one day she woke up and decided not to be bulimic again because it is bad for your voice. Problems are not that easy to fix and rarely does a person succeed at rehabilitation by waking up one day and deciding that they simply wont do it again.

  • Hmm

    She didn’t say that the day she woke up was the last time she ever did it. She was saying that was the day she woke up and realized she needed to stop.

    She had a driving force (her music and fame) to make her realize what she was doing was not the right way and that she needed to stop it, and a lot of people don’t have that motivation either. So it’s a bit different.

    First step into overcoming addiction is to wanting to stop, and she wanted to.

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