Recently, in an exclusive interview with Billboard, music icon Lady Gaga opened up about her battle with depression. The A Star Is Born actress went into detail about her mental health struggles in the last few years.
“I used to wake up in the morning, and I would realize I was 'Lady Gaga.' And then I became very depressed and sad, and I didn't want to be myself. I felt threatened by the things my career brought into my life and the pace of my life,” she said.
In the interview, she recalled the fear of leaving her house and spending hours "chain-smoking and crying.”
In addition, Gaga revealed how her struggle played a huge role in the creation of Chromatica, her newest album.
"I spent a lot of time in a sort of catatonic state of just not wanting to do anything. And then I finally, slowly started to make music and tell my story through my record,” she said.
Gaga also shared that going to therapy helped a lot. She said it helped unleash the sadness that was pulling her down.
“I was peeling all the layers of the onion in therapy. So as you dig deeper, you get closer to the core, and the core of the onion stinks,” she said.
In her new song “911,” Gaga got vulnerable about her experiences with mental health.
“This short film is very personal to me, my experience with mental health and the way reality and dreams can interconnect to form heroes within us and all around us,” she wrote on her Instagram page. “Something that was once my real-life every day is now a film, a true story that is now the past and not the present. It’s the poetry of pain.”
Gaga said that she hopes that sharing her story will help others dealing with the same issues.
“These are the things that create highways from heart to heart, where we can hold compassion and empathy, where we can celebrate everybody’s resilience,” she said.