14 DAY TRIAL // As Times Online puts it in a recent piece, since literally becoming the hottest pop artist of the moment, these days, Lady Gaga rarely does interviews. Getting to her and having her address ongoing rumors about her frail frame, her health and the mental state she’s in is incredibly difficult – though not entirely impossible, as Times proves.
Rumors about Gaga’s health and how she might be exhausting herself with the constant touring and refusing to take even a short break have started to gain momentum since the first time she canceled a show after feeling ill backstage. Her apparent weight loss also contributed to these reports, as it was believed she was starving herself as well. Far from it, actually, the singer says with a smile: she’s healthy, taking care of herself, though she does occasionally indulge, for lack of a better term in this circumstance.
“My schedule is such that I don’t get very much time to eat,But I certainly don’t have an eating problem. 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. But I care about my voice. The thrill of my voice being healthy on stage is really special. I take care of myself,” Gaga explains.
In the same interview, she also says how close she was to an aunt who died from Lupus and makes a subtle, though apparently unwanted connection between her sometimes weak condition to the hereditary disease. She doesn’t want fans to worry, though, because, as she said countless time, once even in concert, if she’s to choose where she dies, she’d rather it happened on stage, in front of her fans and surrounded by all props and not alone on vacation. Gaga also admits she relies on prescription medicine to keep depression and somber thoughts at bay.
“Prescription medicine. I can’t control my thoughts at all. I’m tortured. But I like that. Lorca says it’s good to be tortured. The thoughts are unstoppable – but so is the music. It comes to me constantly. That’s why I got this tattoo [the quote from Rainer Maria Rilke]. I think tattoos have power. I did it as a way to kind of… inject myself with a steadfastness about music. People say I should take a break, but I’m like, ‘Why should I take a break? What do you want me to do – go on vacation?’,” Gaga further says for Times.
For the full piece and interview on Lady Gaga, please refer here.