Lady Gaga tearfully recounts a producer raping her at 19 and the PTSD aftermath

Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey's Apple TV Plus documentary mental health miniseries The Me You Can't See has arrived, and the revelations are abundant.

The first episode begins with Harry and Oprah sitting down and unpacking all the ways in which the last year has exacerbated the mental health crisis for everyone before Harry admits he began therapy four years ago.

About midway through the episode, however, Lady Gaga quickly becomes the headline as she bravely and tearfully admits that she was raped by an unnamed producer when she was 19 years old and got pregnant as a result:

"I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, 'Take your clothes off.' And I said, 'No.' And I left. And they told me they were gonna burn all my music, and they didn't stop. They didn't stop asking me, and then I just froze, and I just—I don't even remember. And I will not say his name. I understand this #MeToo movement, I understand that some people feel really comfortable with this, and I do not ever want to face that person again. This system is so abusive and so dangerous."

The 35-year-old artist then describes that she went to the hospital years later and was confused at the time that she was given a psychiatrist to treat her instead of "a real doctor" because she had physical pain shooting up and down her body. 

"I was sick for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks after, and I realized that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner at my parents' house," she says. The physical illnesses, she now knows, were PTSD symptoms.

Gaga continues to describe how she has learned to cope with PTSD symptoms after having "a total psychotic break" and becoming "not the same girl" for years. The darkest lows, involving disassociation and "an ultra state of paranoia" persisted through the highest points of her musical career. 

The 12-time Grammy winner says she began cutting as a young girl and has only recently stopped. She reveals that she was still battling suicidal thoughts and in the middle of the two-and-a-half-year process to change when she won an Oscar for A Star Is Born in January 2019. "Nobody knew!" she says, laughing.

The segment rounds out by Gaga dispensing advice to others who are suffering, such as never to self-harm because it only makes you feel worse and always surround yourself with at least one person who validates you.

The Me You Can't See contains five one-hour episodes.