(Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair)
Lady Gaga admits she’s been caught in nothing but bad romance on the stormy sea of love.
The megastar laments that she’s tone-deaf about relationships and might be ticketed for a lifetime of singlehood.
“I have never felt truly cherished by a lover. I have an inability to know what happiness feels like with a man,” Gaga said in a revealing chat with January’s Vanity Fair.
Gaga, 25, told VF that all of her relationships start well — before they inevitably crash and burn.
“I have this effect on people where it starts out good,” she said.
“Then when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.”
Oddly enough, Gaga said she’s endured horrible break-ups that have been followed with her ex popping the question.
“How f–kin’ romantic, you a–hole. Sure pop a ring on my finger and make it all better,” Gaga scoffed. “I can buy myself a f–kin’ ring.”
If it came down to a choice between her career and a man, Gaga said she’d pick her Little Monsters every time.
“If I’m supposed to end up like some crazy casualty, then that’s my destiny. I love show business. I need it. It’s like breath,” she said.
“When I’m on stage, I’m so giving and so open and myself. And when the spotlight goes off, I don’t quite know what to do with myself.”
She reportedly has been dating “Vampire Diaries” actor Taylor Kinney in recent months.
The pop sensation, with a world-leading 16.4 million Twitter followers, chalked up part of her romantic failings to an unhealthy need to compete.
“Perhaps it’s a ‘whose d–k-is-bigger’ contest,” Gaga said of her pattern of failed relationships.
“If I go to the piano and write a quick song and play it back, they are angry with how fast and effortless it is. That’s who I am, and I don’t apologize for it. But it’s a hideous place to be in when someone that you love has convinced you that you will never be good enough for anyone.”
She added, “I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that’s what intimidates them is not my purse, it’s my mind.”
In the lowest of low blows, Gaga said a man once warned her she’ll end her days as a lonely old woman.
“You will die alone in a house bigger than you know, with all your money and hit records, and you will die alone,” he said.
The multiplatinum artist said she fears what her legions of fans must think every time she breaks up.
“When I fight with someone I’m in a relationship with, I think: What would my fans think if they knew this was happening?” she said.
“How would they feel about my work and about me as a female if they knew I was allowing this to go on? And then I get out. I only know the happiness of putting a smile on someone’ s face from the stage.”
When Gaga’s in a dark, lonely place, she dives back into her work.
“Even though I know it sounds a bit Hallmark, whenever I [was] in that kind of stressful, worthless moment, I would think, ‘I’ll show you,’ ” Gaga said.