OUTRAGEOUS and controversial pop star Lady Gaga has revealed that she was so addicted to cocaine she believed it would kill her. The singer told how she would lock herself in her room snorting "bags and bags" of the drug to get inspiration for her music. She also confessed that she got dangerously high on LSD as she strove to emulate her pop heroes, the News of the World newspaper in the UK reports. But Gaga, 23 - real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - claims she was eventually saved by a dead auntie whose ghost lives inside her. "I thought I was gonna die," she says in an explosive new biography. "I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol - and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle. "But then I realised my father's sister Joanne, who'd died at 19, had instilled her spirit in me. She was a painter and a poet - and I had a spiritual vision I had to finish her business." Bisexual Gaga also reveals how she stripped on stage during a song as an unknown to get a bored audience to notice her and how the reaction created her Lady Gaga image. One night, while striving for her big break, she caused a stir in a New York's club with what would become her trademark - an impromptu strip on stage. Gaga got so fed up at everyone talking through a song she ripped off her skirt and shirt and sat at the piano in only a bra, pants, fishnet stockings and white shoes. Everybody stared. "That's when I made a real decision about the kind of pop artist I wanted to be," she says. Soon Stefani found her stage name when record producer Rob Fusari told her she reminded him of Freddie Mercury. A mis-typed text from Rob said Lady Gaga instead of Radio GaGa - and a star was born. But the oddball star - who won two Grammys last week and is nominated for three Brit Awards this month - nearly became a drugs statistic as she tried to make it as a singer. The teenage musical prodigy dropped out of her New York performing arts school at 20 and descended into a nightmare world. "My cocaine soundtrack was always the Cure. I would lock myself in my room and listen to Never Enough on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine," she said. "It was about being an artist. I wasn't a lazy addict. I would make demo tapes and send them around. At the time I didn't think there was anything wrong with me, until my friends said, 'Are you doing this alone?' Um, yes. Me and my mirror." "I'm a disaster with men," says the beauty who was teased for being a lesbian at the strict Manhattan convent where she was educated. "But I still believe I'm super-sexy." Her closest companion remains her dead aunt - and she dedicated last year's Fame Ball tour to her. "I never met her - but she's been one of the most important figures in my life." http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/en...cocaine-addction/story-e6frewyr-1225827549645
I'm not surprised that she took coke and LSD tbh.. LSD is a very trippy drug where you can get a lot of inspiration... But then I have nothing against people taking drugs recreationally and not abusing it... Overall Gaga turned out to be successful and its understandable why she is like that although I never questioned her style and reasons behind it... It's just intruiging...
