Diane Warren reveals why Lady Gaga is the 'perfect voice'

Diane Warren revealed why she thought Lady Gaga was the perfect choice for her song.

In her latest and intimate documentary, titled, Diane Warren: Relentless, that premiered on January 10 and would be available to stream on January 16, Warren opened up about a rather personal experience of childhood s**ual assault.

“I never talked about that I was molested as a kid. I didn’t tell my mom or dad at the time.… I didn’t tell anybody,” the songwriter stated.

However, after deciding to turn her pain into immortal art, she penned Til It Happens to You and took on board a collaborator who had went through a similar experience.

In a conversation with PEOPLE magazine, she stated, “When I wrote the song, I thought I'd heard that Gaga had said something on Howard Stern that she was s**ually assaulted. And I thought, you know what? I'm going to call her.”

“I call and I go, ‘I want to play you this song. You're either going to hate me or what.’ I didn't know how she'd react,” Warren recalled of her conversation with the Bad Romance hitmaker.

She continued, “I had the phone down, and I played her the song, and she was hysterically crying on the other end of the phone when I was done playing it. I flew out to New York and taught her the song. We went over it, and then she came back to L.A. and produced this amazing record.”

The song, Til It Happens to You, which Lady Gaga later performed live at the Oscars, Diane Warren said of the performance, “I thought she was the perfect voice to get that song heard. To me, that performance is still to this day one of the best live performances ever filmed.