Lady Gaga doubts she’ll ever find real love, said Lisa Robinson in Vanity Fair. “I have never felt truly cherished by a lover,” says the pop star. “I have an inability to know what happiness feels like with a man.” The pressures of fame, she says, have caused some of her relationships to flatline. “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 says. “‘How would they feel about my work and me as a female if they knew I was allowing this to go on?’ And then I get out.”
She says other relationships soured when lovers grew jealous of her talent. “When I’m in these relationships with [creative] people, the attraction is there initially and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. Then they hate me. If I go to the piano and write a quick song, they are angry with how fast and effortless it is.” After these relationships ended, several of the envious ex-boyfriends have asked Gaga to marry them. She thinks they’re pathetic. “How romantic, you a--hole. Sure, pop a ring on my finger and make it all better. I can buy myself a f---ing ring.”
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