Lady Gaga, the popular US singer and “Poker Face” hitmaker, says her father saved her from her drug addiction. The pop star told ShockHound that she used to spend hours alone in her New York Apartment using cocaine, until her father ordered her to get clean.

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

“And he never said a word about the drugs, not one word,” she continued. “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.”

Gaga (whose real name is Stefani Germanotta) started using cocaine regularly after she dropped out of a music course at New York University in 2005. Her friends became concerned about her erratic behavior and begged her to leave her apartment.

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

“But I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober,” she said. “So I'm fine now."