Lady Gaga Reveals Her Pre - Fame Life in New Book

Lady Gaga is not one to shy away from issues and with quite cutting honesty reveals her drug fuelled past in her new book, Everyone Loves You When You Are Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness. The book which is written by Neil Strauss documents episodes which the star concedes are quite scary in hindsight.

"Sometimes it freaks me out when I think about laying in my apartment [in New York] with bedbugs and roaches on the floor and mirrors with cocaine everywhere, and no will or interest in doing anything but making music and getting high," she said.

She also states that there was nothing wrong with her childhood and she was just trying to emulate her musical heroes David Bowie, and Mick Jagger, together with Andy Warhol.

"I've had such obstacles with drugs and rejection and people not believing in me. It's been a very long and continuous road that I love, but it's hard to just chalk it up to myself."

She describes her drug use as a journey or quest to find her musical self. "I didn't have a bad childhood," she said. "All of the things I went through were on my own quest for an artistic journey to fuck myself up like [Andy] Warhol and Bowie and Mick."

Lady Gaga speaking honestly and openly about drug use is one of the many reasons she has managed to set herself apart from many of her contemporaries who have tried to maintain a squeaky clean image with varying degrees of success.

If we did not know it already, Lady Gaga confirms she is unafraid.