Lady Gaga says she suffered trauma while abusing cocaine and alcohol in her youth. She told writer Neil Strauss, “All of the trauma I caused to myself . . . There are some things that are so traumatic, I don’t even fully remember them.”
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Strauss, author of pick-up manual “The Game,” says he called on his persuasion techniques to get stars to open up for his book, “Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead.” He said, “When I interviewed Christina Aguilera, she talked for the first time about surviving domestic abuse . . . I think musicians see me as some sort of confessional.”