The singer first revealed she had been raped as a teenager during an interview last year, reported Contactmusic.
"I didn't tell anyone for I think seven years. I didn't know how to think about it, I didn't know how to accept it. I didn't know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault.
"It's something that really changed my life. It changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed my thoughts," she said.
When asked how it changed her physically, Gaga explained, "When you go through a trauma like that, it doesn't just have the immediate physical ramifications."
"Because of the way that I dress, and the way that I'm provocative as a person, I thought that I had brought it on myself in some way. That it was my fault.
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