As may not be a total surprise when talking about a woman who made a polar-bear cape work,
Lady Gaga's got problems. The singer speaks about doing drugs, throwing up fried chicken, and having her creativity plucked from her lady garden in a new interview with
Vanity Fair.
The 24-year-old admits that despite having problems with drugs in the past, she still does cocaine a few times a year. "I won't lie; it's occasional," she says. She had to hit rock bottom to stabilize her habit in an incident she's reluctant to describe. "All I will say is I hit rock bottom, and it was enough to send a person over the edge," she says. "My mother knew the truth about that day, and she screamed so loud on the other end of the phone, I'll never forget it. And she said, 'I'm coming to get you.'"
Her mom whisked her off to her grandmother's house, where she proceeded to bawl her fake eyelashes out over the nowhere it seemed like her career was going. "[My mom] said, 'I'm gonna let you cry for a few more hours,'" she remembers. "‘And then after those few hours are up, you're gonna stop crying, you're gonna pick yourself up, you're gonna go back to New York, and you're gonna kick some ass.'"
And that pretty much brings us up to now, minus
l'affair fried chicken. In that low moment, she was feasting on fried chicken in a greasy pit of despair in her bedroom when she got a surprise call to meet with a record executive in half-an-hour. "I said, 'I'll be right there'," she remembers. "I got up, went to the bathroom, threw up, did a line of coke, went to the meeting."
The point being, Lady Gaga is a terrible role model. But the snorting and barfing is possibly less deviant in the world of grown-up pop-stars than her other admission: celibacy. "I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me through my vagina," she says, adding, "I'm quite celibate now... I don't really get time to meet anyone."
So the less sex Lady Gaga has, the more creative she gets. The more creative she gets, the weirder her outfits. The weirder her outfits, the more terrified men are she will snap their necks or secretly be a dude, and the less sex she has. And then the cycle repeats itself. Thank goodness she's back with her ex Luc, and her outfits have simmered down to bikinis and bandanas. While you can craft some very fetching eyewear from burning cigarettes, being that celibate gets expensive.