Flamboyant dance-music artist Lady Gaga grew up taking drugs like any other impressionable teenager.

In the soon-to-be-published bio, Lady Gaga: Just Dance, by Helia Phoenix, Gaga says, "I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol - and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle. My cocaine soundtrack was always the Cure. I would lock myself in my room and listen to 'Never Enough' on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.

"It was about being an artist. I wasn't a lazy addict. I would make demo tapes and send them around. At the time I didn't think there was anything wrong with me, until my friends said, 'Are you doing this alone?' Um, yes. Me and my mirror."

Update: In a current interview, Gaga says: "A little MDMA (Ecstasy) once in a while never killed anybody, but I really don't do drugs. I don't touch cocaine any more. I don't smoke. Well, maybe a single cigarette - with whisky - while I'm working, because it just frees my mind a little bit."

Last year, the New York native told the tabs:

"My cocaine soundtrack was the Cure. I loved all their music, but I listened to one song ("Never Enough") on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine. I didn't think there was anything wrong with me until my friends came over and said, 'Are you doing this alone?' Um, yes. Me and my mirror. But I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober. I'm fine now."

Gaga (nee Stefani Germanotta) has said her song "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" is "about how on [New York's] Lower East Side, there were a lot of rich kids who did drugs and said that they were poor artists, so it's also a knock at that. 'Daddy I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry, yes, we just like to party.' I used to hear my friends on the phone with their parents, asking for money before they would go buy drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs when I wrote 'Dirty, Rich.'"



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"Sometimes drugs can be like a creative journey," Gaga adds. "And I've done it. Some stuff's really amazing. But it also can totally ruin like your whole life and can take over you, so I would never encourage anybody to go on that kind of creative journey. It's really a personal choice."

Also in the book, Gaga discusses the time she took LSD and thought she met Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

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Comments (3)

3 Saturday, 28 August 2010 15:45

david bartal

Her drug use doesn't seem so important to me. I like Lady Gaga for the way she pushes the envelope in her personal style, following in the tradition of Madonna and Bjork. The Icelandic singer by the way will pick up the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm on Monday - one of the biggest music prizes in the world. She deserves it!

2 Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:23

michael Alexander

she can sing, she's original, and there's no one with music like her. find me one artist who could outdo her type of entertainment. you wont be able to. and you probably don't know what you're talking about because your brain is fried.

1 Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:18

dan

this mass media bitch don't know shit about psychoactive substances. i've taken my body weight in psilocybin mushrooms.

if she ever ate any mushrooms or took a tab she'd have realized how big her ego is and how she's demoralizing girls with her music and turning them into mindless drunk sluts.

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