When the singer recently visited the Ali Forney Center, a shelter for homeless LGBT youth located in Harlem, she said; “Kindness, to me, is an action of love or a showing of love to someone else,” the pop singer said. “I also believe that kindness is the cure to violence and hatred around the world. I like to share kindness in a lot of different ways.
“I love to give things to people that have nothing or less than me. These children are not just homeless or in need. Many of them are trauma survivors; they’ve been rejected in some kind of way.
“My own trauma in my life has helped me to understand the trauma of others.”
Gaga, who revealed that she had been r*ped at age 19, led a brief meditation exercise during her visit. “I don’t have the same kind of issues that you have,” she said, “but I have a mental illness and I struggle with that every day so I need my mantra to help keep me relaxed.”
Until her visit, E! reports, Gaga had never spoken publicly about living with posttraumatic stress disorder. “I told the kids today that I suffer from a mental illness. I suffer from PTSD. I’ve never told anyone that before, so here we are,” the 30-year-old singer revealed. “But the kindness that’s been shown to me by doctors — as well as my family and my friends — it’s really saved my life.”
On her r*pe saga, Lady Gaga said, “I’d been searching for ways to heal myself. I found that kindness is the best way. The one way to help people that have trauma is to inject them with as many positive thoughts as possible.”
