In pain and in tears, Lady Gaga reveals her life, her thoughts and herself in a new Netflix documentary

TORONTO - "Do I look pathetic?" Lady Gaga asks, covering her face with her hands to hide her tears. She is lying on a couch in her apartment, only a towel covering her body. A physical therapist places an ice pack on her cheek and massages her head.

"I'm so embarrassed," she says, sobbing quietly.

For the last few years, the musician has been suffering in private like this from chronic pain that began after she broke her hip in 2013. She has spoken publicly about the injury before - describing how MRIs revealed she had a quarter-sized hole in her hip - and this month told fans she'd been diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

But a new film documentary about the 31-year-old exposes the extent to which the condition has affected