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Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga was saved from cocaine addiction by the spirit of her dead aunt.
The eccentric star has revealed her life spiralled into a world of heavy drug use in a bid to replicate the lifestyles of her musical idols.
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Gaga - real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - said: "I thought I was going to die. I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle. My cocaine soundtrack was always The Cure. I would lock myself in my room and listen to 'Never Enough' on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.
"But then I realised my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19, had instilled her spirit in me. She was a painter and a poet - and I had a spiritual vision I had to finish her business."
The 23-year-old pop beauty - who began experimenting with cocaine and the hallucinogenic drug LSD after she dropped out of her course at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts when she was 20 - insists her late auntie is still a huge influence on her career.
Gaga - who won two Grammys last weekend - added in new biography 'Lady Gaga: Just Dance: The Biography' by Helia Phoenix: "I never met her, but she's been one of the most important figures in my life."