Lady Gaga: I am addicted to marijuana

Highlights

• Lady Gaga has admitted that she is addicted to marijuana.
• The 27-year-old singer, who is back in the spotlight after a hip injury, said she turns to marijuana to deal with the challenges in her music career, reported People magazine.
• "I have been addicted to it and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping and it's a form of self-medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco," she said on Elvis Duran and The Z100 Morning Show.
• "I was living on a totally other psychedelic plane, numbing myself completely, and looking back I do see now that some of it had to do with my hip pain. I didn't know where the pain was coming from so I was just in a lot of pain and very depressed all the time and not really sure why," she said.
• Marijuana is not the only drug that Gaga has experimented in her struggle with fame.
• "The truth is that it is very hard to be famous. It's wonderful to be famous because I have amazing fans. But it is very, very hard to go out into the world when you are not feeling happy and act like you are because I am a human being too and I break, and I think there is an assumption... that I cannot break because I am an alien woman and I am unstoppable.
• "The truth is that I can break, and I did. I was not very good at breaking. I lost everything that I love. I was in a wheelchair for six months. I did a lot of drugs and took a lot of pills," Gaga said.
• The Mother Monster, however, plans to fight her addiction by challenging her to create music without drugs.
• "I do put that pressure on myself; I have to be high to be creative. I need that, that's an error in my life that happened for over 10 years. Can I be brilliant without it? I know that I can be and I have to be because I want to live, and I want my fans to want to live," Gaga said.