The six-time Grammy Award winner gets candid in her recent interview with fellow seven-time Academy nominee Diane Warren on Thursday with TimesTalk. Lady Gaga opened up about her experiences in the aftermath of being raped at the age of 19 and admitted the incident had a reflective impact on how she lived her life ever since it happened, the Daily Mail reports.

"The only person in this scenario that can heal you is yourself, and that is the complicated process,” Gaga remarked.

"I didn't tell anyone for I think seven years," she shared. "I didn't know how to even 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 was something that really changed my life. It changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed thoughts."
Meanwhile the following day, the chart-topper also performed her tribute song “Til It Happens to You” to victims of sexual assault at Billboard's 10th Annual Women in Music luncheon at Cipriani in New York.

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According to Entertainment Tonight, the “Born This Way” singer lent her powerful voice to the Diane Warren-penned song, featured in the 2015 campus rape documentary, "The Hunting Ground." In September, a graphic music video helmed by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, starring Nikki Reed was released.

"Me and Diane wanted to open the door to any person that went through any type of experience to know that it was OK to feel that way and to share that and that," Gaga explained. "You don't have to maybe defend yourself so much. Until it happens to you, they don't know how it feels."

On the other note, despite of all the challenges that Lady Gaga has faced emotionally, physically and mentally, she has now come out as a strong woman and has channeled her experience with newfound support and love through her family and friends.

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"When somebody says to me, 'Oh, that happened to you?' 'Oh, did that damage you?' I'm thinking to myself, 'You don't know who the f*ck I am now! You don't want to meet me in an alleyway. What I've been through,'" she said. "You can own your pain and it can be a good part of you."

The TimesTalk came on the same day as a career highlight for Lady Gaga, 29, who scored her first Golden Globe acting nomination for her role as The Countess in FX's American Horror Story: Hotel.

Gaga tweeted on Thursday morning, saying:

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