Lady Gaga got very personal in the new issue of Elle magazine, opening up about her sexuality and why she is no longer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
“I'm great under pressure. I'm a warrior. I'm Rocky, round 12,” she told Elle. "I am—Stefani is—a perpetually tortured artist. That's why I changed my name. I can't be her in public. She would be a mess!"
She goes on to call everyone who questions her background and her journey to where she is now “cynical,” saying "Everyone is so cynical—that I can't purely love my fans, or share an honest story about my past, without someone asking me if I really, truly struggled. Do you know how much dirt I ate? Do you know the men I had to crawl through, the people that disrespected my body, my mind, my heart?" E! Online reports.
She also got personal on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday night, telling host Andy Cohen lesbians are “more daring.”
"I like girls. I've said that (before). I know people think I just say things to be shocking, but I actually do like p---y. It just depends on whose p---y it is," she said, Daily News reports.
Gaga also talked about her past job as a burlesque dancer and falling in love with someone “that could come onto me as strong as a lesbian” would. She’s likely talking about her boyfriend, Taylor Kinney.
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