Lady Gaga made a shocking revelation during an interview with Elle. The Mother Monster explained how she deals with the growing pressures of fame, hiding her true identity and noting she is actually a “tortured artist.”
E! News reports that Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, changed her name specifically because he feels she cannot be herself in public.
"I am—Stefani is—a perpetually tortured artist,” she tells the magazine. "That's why I changed my name. I can't be her in public. She would be a mess!"
Currently gearing up for the release of her newest album, ARTPOP, Gaga explains that she used the time during her hiatus to go back to the core when creating his album. “I went to look back to myself being 19, with all my Warhol books and all my Yoko Ono and John Lennon CDs, my Rolling Stones CDs and my Bowie…, and I said, what would she want me to do right now?” she explains. “Well she'd want you to call Jeff Koons and Robert Wilson and Marina Abramović and Inez and Vinoodh…And that's what I did!"
ARTPOP hits the shelves November 11.
Image: Elle