Lady Gaga reveals early rape

Lady Gaga is revealing that her past includes sexual assault.

She appeared on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show on Tuesday and began talking about her songSwine, from her 2013 Artpop album.

"The song is about rape. The song is about demoralization. The song is about and rage and fury and passion. I had a lot of pain I wanted to release."

Stern asked if she had been raped by a music company executive. "I feel like you were raped by someone. I think that's what you're saying."

Gaga, 28, who is dating Chicago Fire actor Taylor Kinney, replied with, "I went through some horrific things. I'm able to laugh now because I've gone through a lot of, you know, mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years."

She didn't name the person but she says he was 20 years her senior. "I was about 19," when it happened she said. "I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened and I was going, 'Oh is this just the way adults are?'"

She was naive, she says.