Lady GaGa and narcotics…

My father saved me from cocaine addiction. Lady GaGa has revealed her tough no-nonsense father save her from drug addiction.

GaGa admitted spending long periods snorting cocaine alone in her cramped New York apartment, playing music by The Cure.

The Poker Face singer was giving a frank account of her abuse of the Class A drug – and admitted she thought she was going to die – before she became famous.

GaGa, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, said: ‘My father is a really powerful man, a telecom guy. So he looked at me one day and said, “You’re f***in’ up, kid.” And I looked at him and thought, “How does he know that I’m high right now?”

‘And he never said a word about the drugs, not one word. But he said, “I just wanna tell you that anyone you meet while you’re like this, and any friend that you make in the future while you are with this thing, you will lose.”

‘And we never talked about it again.’

The 23-year-old began taking cocaine regularly in 2005 after dropping out of a music course at New York University to find fame.

She explained: ‘My cocaine soundtrack was The Cure. I loved all their music, but I listened to this one song on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.

She said: ‘I didn’t think there was anything wrong with me until my friends came over and said, “Are you doing this alone?” “Um, yes. Me and my mirror”.’

‘But I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober. So I’m fine now.’

However she admitted that she still likes to ‘party’.

She told a US website ShockHound: ‘I can drink, and I’m not gonna say that I don’t party. But it’s not everyday, and it’s no longer a tool for my creativity.

‘The label gets mad at me for talking about it – they say, “We don’t want people to think that you’re not a pop star.” But I am a pop star. I’m a pop star with a story!’

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine earlier this year, GaGa also said she used drugs to drive the inspiration for her futuristic hair and make-up.

She said: ‘It was quite sick. I suppose that’s where the vanity of the album [The Fame] came from.’

She also credits her father, Joseph, with helping her kick the habit, after he told her:

‘You’re screwing up, kid’. GaGa said: ‘We never talked about it again, but I was able to stop.’

After her confession, GaGa was in good spirits last night when she appeared in a wacky outfit at a party hosted by Dr Dre in Berlin. She wore a latex dress, Maison Michel Fall 2009 lace veil and a Marilyn Monroe wig.

She also went for the Gothic look as she launched her Heartbeats Headphones in HMV Oxford Street in central London.