In an interview with US magazine Vanity Fair, the singer divulged that she used the drug “maybe a couple of times a year”.
However, the 24-year-old Poker Face singer discouraged her fans from copying her.
She said: “I do not want my fans to ever emulate that or be that way.”
The star has previously admitted to having a serious drug habit before she was famous.
Last year, she told The Observer that she did “bags and bags of cocaine” as a struggling artist in New York, but quit after being confronted by her father.“I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober,” she said at the time. “So I’m fine now.”
Responding to Gaga’s comments Dr Alex Yellowlees, Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital Glasgow, said: “Cocaine has a more refined image than other drugs because it is often seen to being taken by glamorous celebrities.
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“But the more accepted it is as ‘normal’ the more people could try it who are susceptible to developing problems or addictions.
“Drug use has a wide ranging negative effect on the human body.”
Whilst not condemning the singer’s admission Talk To Frank, the government-backed drugs help service, has issued advice. — BBCOnline.
