Lady Gaga has never held back about experiencing sexual assault when she was 19. Still, the singer says she wishes she’d spoke out sooner. 

“When I started in the music business when I was around 19, it was the rule, not the exception, that you would walk into a recording studio and be harassed,” she said at a roundtable by The Hollywood Reporter. “It was just the way that it was. So I do wish that I had spoken up sooner. I did speak up about it. I was assaulted when I was young, and I told people.”

She added that the “boys club” culture in music protected abusers:

“Nobody wants to lose their power, so they don’t protect you because if they say something, it takes some of their power away,” she said. “What I hope is that these conversations come together — that it’s not just about equal pay on one side … or equal billing over here … and then assault on this side. But that it all comes together and that this movement is all of those things.”

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