Lady GaGa puts drug use down to the pressures of fame

Lady Gaga has made no secret of the fact that she’s used drugs in the past, most recently she admitted to smoking a lot of marijuana.

Now she’s said that as well as using drugs to help cope with the pain of her recent hip operation, she has also used them to help cope with the pressures of fame.

"I've been addicted to various things since I was young. Most heavily over the past seven years... But, the truth is that it is very hard to be famous," she 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," she added.

The Applause singer also told New York radio station Z100, “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.”