Lady Gaga gets matching tattoos with sexual assault survivors

Lady Gaga and the 50 sexual assault survivors who stood on stage alongside her at the Oscars have marked their pride, strength, and solidarity in ink. The tattoos are an intricate line-drawing meant to denote their survivor status.

Lady Gaga has admitted she has been living in "pain" and "paralysing fear" in the 10 years following her being sexually assaulted.

Tattoo artist David Allen posted on Instagram about inking the star.

Message: Gaga co-wrote the haunting song for the documentary feature The Hunting Ground, that explored issues surrounding the large numbers of rapes and sexual assaults on college campuses in the U.S.

After that woman made the suggestion, Gaga, 29, asked the group who else felt pain as a result of what happened to them.

Gaga and the survivors made a pact to get tattoos one day during rehearsal for the Oscars performance, the singer revealed on her Snapchat. "Many of them told me that speaking with her and hearing her share her story and what she'd learned was healing and life-changing". She hashtagged the top image #FreeKesha and #FreeEveryWoman.

Lady Gaga will have a permanent reminder of her moving Oscars performance.

She added: "People every day look at me like a celebrity - that day was the first time in almost 10 years that I was looked at like a human being..." "They told me they were there for me to support me because they believed this message needed to be heard", she continued.

"I went out there and I met the survivors and I just started crying and I had no makeup on, my hair wasn't done...."