Lady GaGa recently made the shocking revelation that she was raped when she was just a teenager, and this horrific event was the inspiration behind her track 'Swine,' which is from the singer's third studio album 'Artpop.'

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Gaga revealed she was sexually assaulted at 19-years-old

During a candid interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday (Dec 2nd), Gaga recalled how she was sexually assaulted when she was around 19-years-old, but she only spoke of the incident now because she doesn't want "to be defined by it."

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"I went through some horrific things that I'm able to laugh [at] now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years," Gaga said in the interview.

"My music's been wonderful for me. But, you know, I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19," she added. "I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'"

The assault was initially addressed by the Grammy-Award winner after Stern probed Gaga about the song 'Swine,' which she said is about "rape, the song is about demoralization, the song is about rage and fury and passion - and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release."

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Gaga further explained that she didn't divulge information about the assault before because she didn't want the attacker to receive any credit for her motivation to succeed.

"I'll be damned if somebody's gonna say that every creatively intelligent thing that I ever did is all boiled down to one d**khead [who] did that to me," she said. "I'm going to take responsibility for all my pain looking beautiful and all the things that I've made out of my strife. I did that."

Nearly ten years later and Gaga confessed she would still be extremely scared if she ever met her attacker. "I don't know how I would react. It would terrify me. It would paralyze me," she said. "I saw him one time in a store and I was so paralyzed by fear. It wasn't until I was a little bit older that I went, 'Wow, that was really messed up.'"