Lady Gaga reveals that she suffers from fibromyalgia
The singer says on Twitter that she wants to "be of help to raise awareness" about this chronic disease and "connect people" who suffer from it.
The singer Lady Gaga has revealed what is the disease that she suffers from her and that has led her to announce that she will take a break from music. It is fibromyalgia, a chronic disease that causes widespread muscle pain, fatigue, sleep, and memory problems. The 31-year-old artist had already commented on several occasions that she suffers from chronic pain but until now she had not named her illness, which she talks about in a documentary that will premiere on Netflix on September 22. .
In the documentary, titled Gaga: Five Foot Two - Gaga: 1.57 meters, in reference to her real height and her way of saying that she is not as big a star as she seems from the outside - Lady Gaga portrays her last year of career and let you see how you deal with pain in your everyday life. On September 8, Gaga introduced him in Toronto and said her pain is "hard but liberating."
"There is something inside me that believes that pain is a microphone ... and pain does not do me any good unless I transform it into something that is," she said with tears in her eyes, without specifying what disease she spoke. At the same press conference, the singer announced that she plans to retire from the stage for a while to rest and "reflect."
In her Twitter account, the singer confirmed this Wednesday that it is fibromyalgia. "The disease that I suffer and of which I speak in my documentary is fibromyalgia", she has said on the social network. "I want to be of help in raising awareness [about fibromyalgia] and connecting people with it," she adds. In another tweet, the artist explains the remedies she uses to ease the pain.
In our documentary the #chronicillness #chronicpain I deal w/ is #Fibromyalgia I wish to help raise awareness & connect people who have it.
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) September 12, 2017
In 2016, she began to talk about her physical ailments on social media. The last time before the documentary was released was last August, when she posted a picture of herself under medical treatment and said she had "a frustrating day with chronic pain" but felt "blessed to have such strong and successful female doctors. smart ".
That same year, she also started talking about her soul pains. "I have a mental illness, and I fight against it every day," Lady Gaga said in reference to the post-traumatic stress she suffers from a rape she suffered when she was 19 years old.
