{"id":139645,"date":"2025-11-14T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:22:11","slug":"lady-gaga-lucky-to-be-alive-after-taking-lithium-while-making-a-star-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139645\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga \u2018lucky to be alive\u2019 after taking lithium while making A Star Is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singer and actress Lady Gaga has said she is \u201clucky to be alive\u201d after taking lithium while making the 2018 film A Star Is Born.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, also revealed she sought psychiatric care after her psyche began to unravel following the making of the film, which she starred in alongside actor Bradley Cooper, and during her Joanne world tour.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the Telephone singer said: \u201cI did A Star Is Born on lithium, there was one day that my sister said to me, \u2018I don\u2019t see my sister anymore\u2019, and I cancelled the tour.<\/p>\n

\"LadyLady Gaga and Bradley Cooper attending the UK premiere of A Star Is Born in 2018 (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was one day I went to the hospital for psychiatric care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI needed to take a break.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t do anything\u2026 I completely crashed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really scary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a time where I didn\u2019t think I could get better\u2026\u200aI feel really lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that might sound dramatic, but we know how this can go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaga cancelled the last 10 dates of the Joanne tour in 2018, citing chronic pain caused by fibromyalgia, a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body that she suffers from, at the time.<\/p>\n

\"LadyLady Gaga also said she sought psychiatric care (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

She credited her fiance, entrepreneur Michael Polansky, with aiding her recovery, and added: \u201cBeing in love with someone that cares about the real me made a very big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US singer said she is now a \u201chealthy, whole person\u201d, having released her seventh studio album Mayhem earlier this year, which is nominated for seven Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cIt was months and months and months of rediscovering everything that I\u2019d lost, and I honestly think that\u2019s why it\u2019s called Mayhem, because what it took to get it back was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NHS says lithium, which is available on prescription, is a type of medicine used to treat mood disorders such as mania, hypo-mania, depression, and bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

Gaga is one of the world\u2019s biggest pop stars and has achieved six UK number one singles and five UK number one albums.<\/p>\n

She is best known for songs such as Just Dance, Poker Face and Paparazzi and has won 14 Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

In May, Brazilian police claimed to have foiled a bomb plot at her free concert on Copacabana Beach, which is said to have been attended by 2.5 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer and actress Lady Gaga has said she is \u201clucky to be alive\u201d after taking lithium while making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-139645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}