Lady Gaga reveals everything about her drug addiction: What she has said throughout her career!
Throughout her career, Lady Gaga has occasionally spoken about her relationship with drugs. Like many other entertainment personalities, the singer also had experiences with drugs, especially at the beginning of her career.
Over the years, she has discussed how addiction affected her life. The last time she addressed the subject, she admitted she hadn’t fully overcome the problem, though she had made significant progress.
In a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair, Gaga reflected on her early career when she left her parents’ home to live alone in a small apartment in New York. She described a bit of her life in that modest home between 2004 and 2007:
“I moved to Stanton Street downtown and stayed there for three years. It was a tiny 400-square-foot apartment—just me and my keyboard, with the kitchen in the living room and the record player next to the toaster. I had my keyboard, my bed, and a dream. I worked, paid my own rent, and made music on my own. At first, it was an inspiring time—leaving home and learning to survive on my own.”
However, it was during this period that Gaga started using cocaine. She shared an episode where she was under the influence of the drug during a meeting for a record deal—a meeting that ultimately led nowhere:
“I was lying face down on the bed… It sounds crazy, but I was eating a salad when I got a call: ‘Can you be at this restaurant in 30 minutes? A big record executive wants to meet you.’ And the salad wasn’t even healthy—it had fried chicken or something. So I said, ‘I’ll be there.’ I got up, went to the bathroom, threw up the salad, snorted a line of cocaine, and went to the meeting. I was completely out of my mind and had already been through so much.”
Being honest, Gaga requested that her statement come with a warning to ensure she wouldn’t be seen as a role model:
“If you publish this, (make it clear that) I don’t want my fans to imitate this or think they need to act this way to be great. This is the past. It was a low point and caused a lot of chaos.”
In 2009, she told The Observer (via BBC) that she quit cocaine after a conversation with her father, emphasizing that she doesn’t want her fans to go through the same struggles. However, other interviews suggest Gaga still faces challenges regarding these issues. While she has stated that she stopped using cocaine, she admitted in the same interview that she occasionally encounters the drug:
“I’m not going to lie; it’s occasional. And when I say ‘occasional,’ maybe twice a year. I really don’t use (cocaine) anymore. It’s been about six months since I last touched it.”
In 2013, the artist also revealed excessive marijuana use and considered herself addicted. Speaking to Z100 Radio, she explained:
“I was addicted… I smoked up to 15, 20 joints a day, no tobacco. I was completely on another plane, numbing myself… I had to stop.”
Also in 2013, Gaga shared that after an injury that forced her to cancel dates on the Born This Way Ball tour, she became emotionally shaken and turned to drugs more often but gradually reduced usage as she recovered.
In 2017, during a conversation with UK Times Online, she denied using cocaine but admitted to occasionally taking ecstasy:
“My schedule leaves me little time to eat. But I don’t have eating problems. A little MDMA (ecstasy) now and then never killed anyone, but I really don’t do drugs. I don’t touch cocaine anymore.”
In the same interview, Gaga revealed she smokes and drinks whiskey while working but without overdoing it. The only drug she truly fears is heroin, due to its high potential for addiction and destruction.
