Lady Gaga Says She Was 'Not Deeply In Touch With Reality' During Period Of Psychosis |
Lady Gaga at the Grammys in February
Lady Gaga is opening up about one of her biggest mental health struggles.
“I had psychosis,” the Abracadabra singer revealed in a candid sit-down with the New York Times’ The Interview podcast, released over the weekend.
She said of her mental health episode, which happened around five years ago, that she was “not deeply in touch with reality for a while”, recalling: “It took me out of life in a big way, and after a lot of years of hard work I got myself back.”
Gaga – whose legal name is Stefani Germanotta – said that she is finding that period of her life “increasingly harder to talk about”.
“I hate feeling defined by it. It felt like something I felt ashamed........