Lady Gaga says a producer threatened to 'burn' all of her music if she didn't remove her clothes when she was 19

• Lady Gaga said the music producer who raped her at 19 repeatedly asked her to take her clothes off.
• When the singer refused to comply, she said he threatened to "burn" all of her music.
• Gaga doesn't plan on identifying the producer, saying she does not "ever want to face" him again.

Lady Gaga said the music producer who raped her when she was a teenager threatened to destroy her work if she did not strip for him.

The 35-year-old singer, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, spoke about the sexual assault in Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey's docuseries "The Me You Can't See," released on Apple TV+ Friday.

"I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business. A producer said to me, 'Take your clothes off,'" she began. "I said, 'No,' and I left."

Gaga said the producer proceeded to tell her they would "burn" all of her music if she didn't behave as instructed.

"They didn't stop - they didn't stop asking me. I just froze and I just - I don't even remember," she said, growing emotional.

Years later, Gaga still won't say the producer's name and confirmed that she has no plans to publicly identify him. She stated that while she's an advocate of the #MeToo movement, she personally does not feel "comfortable" naming her alleged perpetrator.

"I do not ever want to face that person again," she said.

Gaga first spoke about being sexually assaulted in a SiriusXM interview with Howard Stern in 2014, revealing that a man 20 years her senior raped her when she was 19. The singer said the rape served as inspiration for her 2013 song "Swine."

She told Stern that she has no desire to confront her assaulter, adding that she once saw him at a store and felt "paralyzed by fear."

For years after she was raped, Gaga said she didn't tell anybody what happened. "It was almost like I tried to erase it from my brain. And when it finally came out, it was like a big, ugly monster. And you have to face the monster to heal," she told Vogue in 2019.

In 2015, Gaga performed, produced, and cowrote a song called "Til It Happens To You" for "The Hunting Ground," a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses. The following year on NBC's "Today," she announced that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the rape.

The assault also left Gaga in physical pain, she revealed in 2017, sharing that she had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fibromyalgia is a condition that causes pain all over the body.

She told Elle in 2019 that fibromyalgia and her trauma response "kind of go hand in hand." The condition has forced her to cancel several concerts in recent years, as she was in "severe pain."

"The way that I feel when I feel pain is how I felt after I was raped. I've had so many MRIs and scans. They don't find nothing, but your body remembers. I couldn't feel anything. I disassociated. It's like your brain goes offline," she said on "The Me You Can't See."