Lady Gaga’s Addiction to Marijuana

Lady Gaga has spoken honestly yet again about her drug use.

The singer said the she used drugs in order to cope with the pain of her hip injury. She underwent surgery last February to treat the damage caused to her cartilage on her Born This Way tour, CBS reported.

"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 told Elvis Duran on US radio station Z100. "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."

The singer went on to say that her addiction to different drugs had actually grown worse. She used them so that she can deal with fame. "I've been addicted to various things since I was young," she said. "Most heavily over the past seven years... But, the truth is that it is very hard to be famous."

She also said: "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." 

Lady Gaga said that she's trying to get to a place where she doesn't have to use drugs for her to be creative.

"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."

Meanwhile, here are 5 ways to know if someone you know is already addicted to drugs.

1.     Sudden changes in their behavior

2.    Mood swings (usually irritable)

3.    Defensive about their actions

4.    Always blaming other people

5.    Secretive