Before we all start berating her for uttering "such irresponsible remarks for impressionable ears to hear" etc, etc., she's curbed her toking ways because she wants to survive beyond her 27th year.

The singer has openly admitted to being "addicted" to cannabis in the past, but she insists she became overly reliant on it because it helped her forget her level of fame and made her feel like she was a teen again. Two of the very reasons I don't smoke weed.

During tonight's interview on Alan Carr: Chatty Man (10pm, Channel 4), she reveals: "The thing that I really fell in love with about it is that I completely forget that I'm famous, just totally forget about it, and I just take a puff and I'm me when I was 17 again, in my white go-go boots, looking for a job on the lower east side, and there's something quite creative

Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison all died aged of 27, but Gaga is adamant she'll make it to her 28th birthday next March.

She said previously: "I want to live and I want my fans to live. I don't want them to torture themselves in the way I have. I want to show people that I will last past 27 and I will last longer, and so will you."