Madonna first publicly admitted to being a rape victim in an Oct. 2013 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, and now the iconic singer has revealed why it took her so long to come forward about the traumatic incident that occurred in the late 70s. During an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” on Wednesday, Madonna admitted that “humiliation” kept her from seeking justice upon the man who raped her at knifepoint on the roof of a New York City building.

In her Harper’s Bazaar essay, Madonna spoke out for the first time about how New York “didn’t open her with open arms” when she moved there in the late ’70s.

“New York wasn’t everything I thought it would be,” she wrote. “The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times.”

The “Vogue” singer spoke with Howard Stern about her new album “Rebel Heart” on Wednesday, and during the interview, she repeated her traumatizing story.

“I was raped. The first year I lived in New York was crazy,” Madonna told Stern.

Madonna went on to explain that she never reported the incident to the cops or attempted to press charges.

“You’ve already been violated,” she said. “It’s just not worth it. It’s too much humiliation.”

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, approximately 68 percent of rapes are never reported, and experts have linked this tendency to underreport to the negative attention victims of sexual assault face while trying to seek justice.