Lady Gaga reveals she medicated herself with booze and weed to cope with pressures of fame – and how new album saved her
Lady Gaga reveals she medicated herself with booze and weed to cope with pressures of fame – and how new album saved her
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SINCE bursting into the charts 16 years ago, Lady Gaga has gone out of her way to shock and entertain in her quest to become the biggest pop star on the planet. But working herself to the bone came at a price, because she now admits to having self- medicated on booze, cigarettes and cannabis to escape the pressures of fame she created.
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Gaga revealed: “I used to drink a lot and smoke a lot, and I was always looking for an out. “I used to call it the trap door. “I used to be like, ‘I need an escape route.’ I stopped doing that. “And I actually started feeling it — being present.”.
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I sometimes worry people will say I’m boring these days but honestly...thank God I’m boring!. I was living on the edge and didn’t know what was going to happen to me. Now the controversial megastar — who famously wore a meat dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and released the track Judas just days before Easter Sunday in 2011 — reckons fans may think she has become dull as she is leading a quieter, more contented life with entrepreneur fiancé Michael Polansky, 46.
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Gaga, 38, said: “Sometimes I worry people will say I’m boring these days, but honestly, thank God I’m boring. “Because I was living on the edge. “I don’t know what was going to happen to me living that way. “So the fact that I have these answers . . . On the one hand, I’m like, ‘Oh man, snooze-fest!’.
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