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12.11.15


At a TimesTalk session for the campus-rape documentary The Hunting Ground, Lady Gaga opened up about her own experience of sexual assault that occurred when she was a teenager.

"I didn't tell anyone for I think seven years," Gaga said. "I didn't know how to think about it. I didn't know how to accept it. I didn't know how not to blame myself, or think it was my fault. It was something that really changed my life. It changed who I was completely. It changed my body."

Gaga's experience partially inspired the haunting song "Til It Happens to You," which appears in the documentary and for which she released a dark video back in September. She hopes telling her story and channeling it into artistic expression will help other young women who suffered the same fate.

"I'm here because when I look out onto the sea of beautiful young faces that I get to sing and dance for, I see a lot of people who have secrets that are killing them," Gaga told the panel.

"We don't want you to keep your pain inside and let it rot like an old apple on your counter, you know? It's like, just get rid of all that trash. Let's get rid of it together."


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Glad she got over her demons.

I'm calling BS on this and call me insensitive. This woman lies about everything and anything to be in the spotlight. How can anybody take her seriously when she did a video with R. Kelly AND Terry Richardson. People are so gullible.

https://www.youtube.com/w...sWcd4k65xw

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You better believe it. These days I figure a woman needs five or more witnesses to prove that the assault happened.

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phillymonster said:

I'm calling BS on this and call me insensitive. This woman lies about everything and anything to be in the spotlight. How can anybody take her seriously when she did a video with R. Kelly AND Terry Richardson. People are so gullible.

https://www.youtube.com/w...sWcd4k65xw

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I believe her, but agree that DWUW seems extremely fucked in the context of exclaiming yourself as a once rape victim. With her its hard to know what she was thinking considering she's deals with mental "issues".

She was raped but she's singing with the multiple sex abuser R. Kelly. Boy, she sure is showing solidarity with her fellow victims, ain't she?

Identity said:

You better believe it. These days I figure a woman needs five or more witnesses to prove that the assault happened.

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I hope you are being sarcastic Id'. If you aren't, your mindset is beyond pathetic.

TD3 said:

Identity said:

You better believe it. These days I figure a woman needs five or more witnesses to prove that the assault happened.

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I hope you are being sarcastic Id'. If you aren't, your mindset is beyond pathetic.

Hmmm, I thought I made it clear that it's mockery; else, I wouldn't have opened a thread on a sensitive topic like sexual assault. What would be the point?

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So, all of you blindly defending Gaga and calling it insensitive to question her motives, what do you think of this?

https://goo.gl/s9wTIl

If you don't want to click on link, here is what it says:

Hold Lady Gaga Responsible For Promoting Rape! Don't Reward Her With Oscar Nomination!

Lady Gaga has been making the rounds telling everybody she is a victim of rape in order to promote her song “Till It Happens To You” and make herself the martyr for all rape victims. I am not here to decide if she was actually raped or not. But I am here to call her a hypocrite.

I worked on the set of the video for “Do What You Want With My Body,” a collaboration with herself, R. Kelly and Terry Richardson. These two people are alleged sexual predators and all it takes is a simple Google search to see how they allegedly ruined the lives of many young girls.

At the beginning of the video, R. Kelly tells Lady Gaga that when she wakes up, she is going to be “pregnant.” That part didn’t make it into this clip. When the video came to light (which she leaked), it was thought that the full version was never released because of R. Kelly and Terry Richardson. However, in an “exclusive” with US, Gaga’s team claimed that the video not being released had nothing to do with the accusations against R. Kelly and Terry Richardson. The PR person told US that everybody at the label actually liked it.

The video has been described as an advertisement for rape by many websites and it was more than that. Rape actually occurred on the set and I was a victim. I was drugged up on the set (as were some of the female extras) when I thought I was drinking spiked up hot cocoa, which shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place. Lady Gaga has joked about "roofies" in her tweets before, so this shouldn't have been surprising.

I found myself in a dark room with a very-well known person and was sexually assaulted. I don’t remember much. I do remember being told that we were going to discuss the chaos that was taking place on the set, which there was a lot of. I was only slightly aware when it was happening and thought it was a bad dream. I felt an excruciating penetration and could barely open my mouth to scream for help. I don’t know how long this lasted, but I know I was told that if I say anything, I will never work in Hollywood again. I haven’t.

The last year has been a living a living Hell for me. In fact, I probably would have been better off in Hell than experience what I have. I have received death threats in real life from people who are still friends with Lady Gaga and the person who raped me. I have also died a thousand times in my dreams. I can barely walk outside without crying. I have tried to reach out to Lady Gaga and her management about what happened and that all I want is some closure. I have received nothing but death threats, horrific emails, and stalking.

I feel truly sorry for Lady Gaga if she was raped. But when I see her talk about being raped as a promotional blitz to try and make up for all the work she did with known perverts and win an Oscar, I feel like dying again. Even if she is a friend of the LGBT community, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY she should be getting away with her hypocrisy. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that the fawning press should be quiet and let more people be victimized. I also know there were other victims on the set, but they are afraid to do anything about it.

Please note that I'm not saying that this petition is 100 percent legit. But I'm saying there is a very good chance it's legit. If you guys are going to say it's immoral to accuse Lady Gaga of exploiting her rape for publicity, I'm going to say that it's moral to accuse the petition of being fake. Think about it.

Sorry. That piece doesn't change my thoughts on the matter one iota.

SEANMAN said:

Glad she got over her demons.

You think so Sean? I think she has just begun to touch the surface.

Chancellor said:

SEANMAN said:

Glad she got over her demons.

You think so Sean? I think she has just begun to touch the surface.

I agree. At least she's beginning to get a handle on it.

SEANMAN said:

I agree. At least she's beginning to get a handle on it.

I cant wait to binge watch AHS: Hotel, Critics say she's amazing in it...

Identity said:

TD3 said:

I hope you are being sarcastic Id'. If you aren't, your mindset is beyond pathetic.

Hmmm, I thought I made it clear that it's mockery; else, I wouldn't have opened a thread on a sensitive topic like sexual assault. What would be the point?

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Thank you for the clarifaction Id'.

love a lot of the music now, but damn, is there anything a) this bitch won't package and sell or b) that madonna didn't say in an interview in like 1995 or c) all of the above

we get it

all female performers have had eating disorders drug additcion rape abortion we get it

i get it

thank you

we all struggle

dollface

Identity said: