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Pop icon and award-winning actress Lady Gaga made shocking revelations during her appearance in the first episode of the docu-series The Me You Can't See.

The five-part docu-series, which is executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, explores mental health and emotional well-being with stories of people who've experienced them first hand.

Among those who told their tales is the "Born This Way" and "Shallow" singer Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a producer when she was younger.

Lady Gaga meditating in 'The Me You Can't See' docu-series / Source: Apple TV (YouTube)

"I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, 'Take your clothes off,” she recalled. "And I said no. And I left, and they told me they were going to burn all of my music.

At one point, she broke in tears as she recounts the traumatic experience.

She said, "They didn't stop asking me, and then I just froze, and I just - I don't even remember."

Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, refused to name her rapist, saying she “do not ever want to face that person again.”

But she detailed the aftermath of the sexual assault in the docu-series.

"First I felt full-on pain, then I went numb.

“And then I was sick for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks after, and I realized that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner, at my parents' house, because I was vomiting and sick.

“Because I'd been abused. I was locked away in a studio for months."

Lady Gaga recounts in tears the sexual assault she experienced when she was 19 years old / Source: Apple TV (YouTube)

She also said that the mental and physical manifestation of the abuse lingered for years.

“I had a total psychotic break, and for a couple years, I was not the same girl.

"The way that I feel when I feel pain was how I felt after I was raped.

“I've had so many MRIs and scans where they don't find nothing.

“But your body remembers."

Lady Gaga then revealed that she used to turn to self-harm to deal with the trauma, but now realizes how it isn't helping and advised people going through the same thing to stop it.

“You know why it's not good to cut? You know why it's not good to throw yourself against the wall? You know why it's not good to self-harm? Because it makes you feel worse.

"You think you're going to feel better because you're showing somebody, 'Look, I'm in pain.' It doesn't help."

The multi-hyphen celebrity emphasized that she's not telling her story for attention or sympathy, but to serve as an eye-opener about mental health issues.

"Open your heart up for somebody else, because I'm telling you, I've been through it and people need help.

"That's part of my healing, is being able to talk to you."

Watch the full trailer of The Me You Can't See docu-series below.

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