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On Tuesday, famed pop star Lady Gaga revealed to Howard Stern that she was raped when she was 19. The assailant was nearly two decades older. While discussing her song “Swine,” which she stated was about rape, demoralization, rage, fury and passion, the over-the-top singer kept hinting at the possibility she was. So Stern asked her directly. Without going into details she stated, “It happens every day. It’s really scary and it’s sad. It didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later. It hit me so hard. I was so traumatized by it that I was like, ‘Just keep going.’ Because I just had to get out of there… I wasn’t even willing to admit that anything had ever happened.” She has not addressed the subject publicly because she doesn’t “want to be defined by it. I’ll be damned if somebody’s going to say that every creatively intelligent thing I’ve ever done is all boiled down to one dickhead that did that to me.”