Lady Gaga has revealed that she was addicted to marijuana, and was smoking up to 20 joints a day.
The Applause pop star told the Z100 Morning Show: “I have been addicted to it and it’s ultimately
related to anxiety coping and it’s a form of self-medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.”
She revealed that the hip injury that she suffered this year – which forced her to undergo surgery and spend some time in a wheelchair – contributed to her abuse of the drug.
She explained: “I was living on a totally other psychedelic plane, numbing myself completely, and looking back I do see now that some of it had to do with my hip pain. I didn’t know where the pain was coming from so I was just in a lot of pain and very depressed all the time and not really sure why.”
She revealed that she had been abusing marijuana for about 10 years, but made a conscious decision to stop and focus on living a healthy life.
“Can I be brilliant without it? I know that I can be and I have to be because I want to live, and I want my fans to want to live. I don’t want them to torture themselves in the way I have. I want to show people that I will last past 27 and I will last longer, and so will you. I want to change this code in the atmosphere that in order to be remembered, I must die young. In order to be remembered as a legend, I must be dead first. This is unhealthy. The way that we [celebrities] are treated by the media, this is unhealthy. Not just me, I am just one of many people that are treated poorly by the media.”
She added: “I just want young kids to know that you actually can become addicted to [marijuana].”
Gaga also revealed that she struggles to cope with stardom, especially when she is at an emotional low point.
She added: “The truth is that it is very hard to be famous. It’s wonderful to be famous because I have amazing fans. But it is very, very hard to go out into the world when you are not feeling happy and act like you are because I am a human being too and I break, and I think there is an assumption … that I cannot break because I am an alien woman and I am unstoppable. The truth is that I can break, and I did. I was not very good at breaking.”
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