Lady Gaga says she flirted with sobriety' and quit smoking' while making new album

Pop star Lady Gaga says she considered quitting alcohol while working on her new album Chromatica'.

In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the 34-year-old singer revealed how she had planned to go sober after penning a song called 911, which focuses on her experience of taking an antipsychotic medication.

I don't take any pain medication, because it's not healthy for me. But I've flirted with the idea of sobriety. I'm not there yet, but I flirted with it throughout the album. It's something that came up as a result of me trying to work through the pain that I was feeling.

But part of my healing process was going, Well, I can either lash the hell out of myself every day for continuing to drink, or I can just be happy that I'm still alive and keep going,' and feel good enough. I am good enough. It's not perfect, but wabi-sabi. I'm perfectly imperfect, Gaga said.

Though the singer did not quit alcohol, she did manage to ditch cigarettes following the album's recording.

"I quit smoking. I smoked the whole way through making this record. And when we were done, I stopped. It was the most bizarre, beautiful thing that could have happened, that this music actually healed me."