Lady Gaga reveals how rape affected her mental heath during FaceTime with Prince William
Lady Gaga, 31 - who released an open letter through her Born This Way Foundation last year, in which she spoke about how she now suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after being raped as a teenager - called Prince William, 34, to discuss how they could work together to raise awareness in the future.
Gaga - whose real name is Stefani Germanotta - explained: “It made me very nervous at first, for me waking up every day and feeling sad and going on stage is very hard to describe.
“There is a lot of shame attached to mental illness, you feel like there is something wrong with you.
"In my life I go ‘oh my goodness, look at all these beautiful wonderful things that I have, I should be so happy’, but you can’t help it if you wake up in the morning and you are so tired and you are so sad and you are so full of anxiety that you can barely think.
"It’s like saying, this is a part of me and that’s okay."