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Lady GagaLady Gaga is opening up about some of the mental health issues she’s experienced during her time in the spotlight.Throughout her career, Gaga has shared her experiences of anxiety, depression and PTSD, and in a new cover interview with Rolling Stone magazine, spoke candidly about how she was quietly struggling during key moments in her career.Disclosing that she “did A Star Is Born on lithium”, the 14-time Grammy winner also said that she experienced a psychotic break while on tour shortly after her work on that film was complete.Lady Gaga as Ally in 2018 s A Star Is Born“There was one day that my sister said to me, ‘I don’t see my sister anymore’,” she recalled. “And I cancelled the tour.”Gaga continued: “There was one day I went to the hospital for psychiatric care. I needed to take a break. I couldn’t do anything… I completely crashed. It was really scary.“There was a time where I didn’t think I could get better…  I feel really lucky to be alive. I know that might sound dramatic, but we know how this can go.”View this post on InstagramIn 2021, Gaga spoke about another “total psychotic break” she experienced as a young woman, after a sexual assault that left her pregnant.“For a couple years, I was not the same girl,” she recalled. “The way that I feel when I feel pain was how I felt after I was raped. I’ve had so many MRIs and scans where they don’t find nothing. But your body remembers.”She went on to compare her darker mental health moments to “a black cloud that is following you wherever you go telling you that you are worthless and should die”.Earlier this year, she also opened up about periods of psychosis in her life in which she felt she was not “deeply in touch with reality”.Gaga has now noted in her Rolling Stone interview that she is now in a much better place with her mental health.Earlier this year, the Abracadabra singer received huge acclaim for her sixth studio album Mayhem, which she has described as her way of coming through the darkness in her life and embracing who she is.Describing the making of the album to the magazine, she explained: “It was months and months and months of rediscovering everything that I’d lost. And I honestly think that’s why it’s called Mayhem. Because what it took to get it back was crazy.”Gaga also chose to reveal that while she continues to take “some” antipsychotic medication to help her mental health, she’s “not [on] as many” as when she wrote the Chromatica single 911, after “weaning [herself] off a lot of them”.Read Lady Gaga’s full interview in Rolling Stone.Help and support:Mind, open Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm on 0300 123 3393.Samaritans offers a listening service which is open 24 hours a day, on 116 123 (UK and ROI - this number is FREE to call and will not appear on your phone bill).CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserably) offer a helpline open 5pm-midnight, 365 days a year, on 0800 58 58 58, and a webchat service.The Mix is a free support service for people under 25. Call 0808 808 4994 or email help@themix.org.ukRethink Mental Illness offers practical help through its advice line which can be reached on 0808 801 0525 (Monday to Friday 10am-4pm). More info can be found on rethink.org.READ MORE:Lady Gaga Says She Was Not Deeply In Touch With Reality During Period Of PsychosisLady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball Tour Is Quite Simply The Best Thing She’s Ever DoneLady Gaga Is Now Just 1 Award Away From EGOT Status After Her Latest Surprise Win

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