{"id":481540,"date":"2019-01-30T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=786404"},"modified":"2019-01-30T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:37:19","slug":"lady-gaga-defends-kesha-in-unsealed-deposition-from-dr-luke-defamation-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lady-gaga-defends-kesha-in-unsealed-deposition-from-dr-luke-defamation-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Defends Kesha in Unsealed Deposition From Dr. Luke Defamation Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s September 2017 deposition in the legal battle between Kesha<\/a> and Lukas \u201cDr. Luke<\/a>\u201d Gottwald has been unsealed, with the testimony revealing that Gaga fiercely defended Kesha while questioned by Gottwald\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

Gaga was subpoenaed<\/a> and deposed in the ongoing legal fight due to a text message conversation<\/a> between her and Kesha where Kesha confided to her that Gottwald had raped her.<\/p>\n

Kesha also told Gaga that a record label executive informed her that Gottwald raped Katy Perry, which both Perry and Gottwald later denied. The text message exchange was subpoenaed as part of Gottwald\u2019s defamation lawsuit against Kesha.<\/p>\n

In the unsealed deposition, obtained by the Blast<\/a>, Gaga\u2019s lawyer prefaced that the singer herself was \u201ca sex abuse survivor\u2026 there are trigger events, and this deposition has proved to be a trigger event for Ms. Germanotta.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaga then recounted how the first time she met Kesha, the singer was only wearing underwear in the back room of Gottwald\u2019s studio. Over the next few years, Kesha begin confiding in Gaga.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we discussed was, what I recall was her immense sadness and depression and fear,\u201d Gaga said. \u201cShe was visibly very different than when I had seen her before, and \u2013 but I can\u2019t say specifically what we spoke about. I just recall it was emotional and I wanted to be there for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually Kesha told Gaga that Gottwald had sexually assaulted her. When Gottwald\u2019s lawyer asked Gaga whether she had witnessed or had evidence of Gottwald\u2019s abuse of Kesha, Gaga fired back, \u201cWell, you know \u2013 when men assault women, they don\u2019t invite people over to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaga added, \u201cAnd when this happens in this industry, it is kept extremely secret, and it is compounded by contracts and manipulative power scenarios that actually include this very situation that we are all in right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under continued questioning, Gaga started to become enraged at Gottwald\u2019s lawyers for questioning the legitimacy of Kesha\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have factual knowledge of her depression. I have factual knowledge of her need for support and love. I have factual knowledge of the spiral that I watched that girl go down. I have factual knowledge of trauma. I am informed and intelligent about this issue. That girl has experienced serious trauma and she is in the middle of the right now. And you are all a party to it,\u201d Gaga chided the lawyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy on earth would this girl tell the entire world this happened? Why on earth? Do you know what it\u2019s like for survivors? Do you know what it\u2019s like to tell people? Don\u2019t you roll you eyes at me. You should be ashamed of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The text message conversation between Gaga and Kesha resulted in yet another legal motion Tuesday as Kesha\u2019s legal team filed documents arguing that the singer is not responsible for the defamatory nature of the text conversation, since it was Gottwald\u2019s legal team that subpoenaed for the release of the private exchange between Gaga and Kesha.<\/p>\n

Kesha\u2019s legal team also argued that, while both Gottwald and Perry denied the rumor that Gottwald raped Perry, those denials aren\u2019t proof that the rape didn\u2019t happen, Billboard<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, for obvious reasons, an alleged rapist\u2019s denial is hardly proof that the rape did not occur,\u201d the filing said. \u201cAnd victims often deny sexual abuse, particularly when the perpetrator and victim share a personal or professional relationship; that is precisely why domestic-violence prosecutions often proceed in the face of a denial of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lady Gaga\u2019s September 2017 deposition in the legal battle between Kesha and Lukas \u201cDr. Luke\u201d Gottwald has been unsealed, with the testimony revealing that Gaga fiercely defended Kesha while questioned by Gottwald\u2019s lawyers. Gaga was subpoenaed and deposed in the ongoing legal fight due to a text message conversation between her and Kesha where Kesha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:13:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}