Lady Gaga has said that being nominated this year at the Oscars alongside Diane Warren in the Best Original Song category, is "extremely healing" for her and a brilliant experience.
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Speaking to People, she said: "It's truly an honour, and it is extremely healing actually, for it to be a song that for both of us, is part of who we are, and I feel kind of vindicated for my own experience in a way because the song is us continuing to fight through our demons about it."
She continued: "The nomination is fantastic and just a massive honour but it's mostly an honour because I feel the Academy is really caring about us and a very important issue. An issue that is in need of being talked about now, so that we can protect our future."
Diane added of the track: "It's helping so many people heal. It's become this anthem for this whole movement and beyond that. It's actually speaking to people who have gone through trauma, or whatever it is."
Gaga also spoke to Variety about the moment she found out the song had been nominated. She explained: "I was texting her [Diane] from my bed. I was home and thinking I would just wait to find out when I woke up in the morning. But I woke up and kept looking at my cell phone to see what time it was. Then I got distracted working on the David Bowie tribute (for the Grammy Awards). I was creating the mix tape I was going to submit to Nile Rodgers and I had my headphones on and was getting really into it and I missed the very beginning of the nominations.
"It was crazy, it was really special. I had the computer on my lap, working on Bowie's music, and I already felt so honored and privileged to be doing that. And I looked up and saw 'Til It Happens To You' on the screen.
"We're so happy the message is out there and that people are talking about it on a daily basis. That a song that has a message like that is being heard and not judged in the wrong kind of way."
Check out the Oscar-nominated track below, 'Til It Happens To You':
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