Lady Gaga admits taking cocaine ‘occasionally’

[Jordan]

Lady Gaga has admitted that she takes cocaine, describing her usage as "occasional".

In an interview with US magazine Vanity Fair, the singer divulged that she used the drug "maybe a couple of times a year".

However, the 24-year-old Poker Face singer discouraged her fans from copying her.

She said: "I do not want my fans to ever emulate that or be that way."

The star has previously admitted to having a serious drug habit before she was famous.

Last year, she told The Observer that she did "bags and bags of cocaine" as a struggling artist in New York, but quit after being confronted by her father.

"I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober," she said at the time. "So I'm fine now."

Charity response
Lady Gaga was speaking during an interview with US magazine Vanity Fair
Responding to Gaga's comments Dr Alex Yellowlees, Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital Glasgow, said: "Cocaine has a more refined image than other drugs because it is often seen to being taken by glamorous celebrities.

"But the more accepted it is as 'normal' the more people could try it who are susceptible to developing problems or addictions.

"Drug use has a wide ranging negative effect on the human body."

Whilst not condemning the singer's admission Talk To Frank, the government backed drugs help service, has issued advice.

Dr. Ken Checinski, consultant psychiatrist said: "Cocaine is psychologically more addictive than many other substances, such as alcohol and cannabis, and can easily become a habit that controls your life."

'Lonely' Gaga
Elsewhere in the Vanity Fair interview, Lady Gaga said she was "perpetually lonely" despite her global success.

She said: "I'm lonely when I'm in relationships. It's my condition as an artist."

The Poker Face singer added in the candid chat: "I'm quite celibate now; I don't really get time to meet anyone."

She told the magazine: "I'm drawn to bad romances. And my song [Bad Romance] is about whether I go after those [sorts of relationships] or if they find me.

"I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me."

Source: Here.

[Suspective]

"I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me."

I think she takes it more than occasionally...

[Misawa]

Wow, what news this is - and so do most big names in the music industry.

[Jessicrawrr]

"Cocaine has a more refined image than other drugs because it is often seen to being taken by glamorous celebrities.
Therefore it influences 'Glamorous celebrities' fans to also take cocaine?

[Ejvind]

DON'T COME NEAR MY VAGINA, THEY'RE TAKING MY CREATIVITY.

Yeah, she still takes bags and bags of it.

[Jahova]

Stupid *****.

[FlyingJesus]

She's admitted to drug taking loads of times before, as Adam said it's not exactly a shock that someone in music likes a bit of coke every now and then

[RedStratocas]

uh, how is this surprising? have you seen what she looks like? hahahaha. people all over the music and movie industries do coke, im sure more pop singers haven't admitted it.

anyway i have virtually no respect for lady gaga, she really does say the stupidest things. she thinks a man is going to suck her creativity from her vagina, she once said she always dresses "lavishly" in public because it would be unfair to her fans if she dressed normally (this sounds like she thinks she's santa clause, as if we have to "believe" in her), she thinks that putting out two albums in two years makes her the hardest working musician, and she promotes abstinence while dressed as a sex slave and sings "i wanna take a ride on your disco stick."

really coke is probably the most normal thing she does. and all that stuff above really wouldnt bother me too much if she didnt always insist that she's somehow different from other pop musicians, which she's not. thats really all that irks me, that shes completely blind to the fact that she's not original at all.

[Swastika]

Hopefully she'll overdose and die.

[Apple]

She's not right in the head, maybe all the coke she was taking before she become famous is responsible for making her so weird. I do like her music though and you can't really be too sure on someones personality unless you are close to them and know the real them. For all we know the crazy personality she has is all a gimmick that she does to be unique/different.