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Lady Gaga: 'It's the thing I am the most ashamed of in my life'

Songstress Lady Gaga has revealed that getting to perform her moving and empowering song 'Till It Happens To You' at the Oscars was an incredibly important moment for her because it allowed more room for discussion about sexual assault. 

During a chat with Elvis Duran and the Morning Show this week, the sensation opened up about the performance and what it meant to use that platform to sing the song:

"There's definitely a stigma around this song in addition to there being a stigma around sexual assault. People kind of shut down when you start talking about it and they don't know what to say and that's actually what happens to people who have been through a traumatic experience. We shut down as well, so the conversation doesn't really happen at all.”

She continued: "I was assaulted as a young girl and I have never told anybody," Gaga continued. "I've sort of tried to kind of say it [in interviews] but it always gets sort of swept under or nobody really says anything and they move on to some different gossip and you start to just feel like people don't care and I didn't think that anybody would care. It's the thing that I am the most ashamed of in my life and I've always felt that it was my fault.”

Watch Gaga's Oscars performance here:

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