SHIRLEY BASSEY - BASSEY: 'I WILL NEVER WED AGAIN'

BASSEY: 'I WILL NEVER WED AGAIN'

DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY will never marry again - because men are intimidated by her success.
The singer, who has been divorced twice, insists she is better off as a single woman.
She says, "I've always been the breadwinner and many men don't like that, even in today's changed world. They can become jealous of the love one shares with an audience.
"It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
"Some men are afraid to be with a successful woman because we're so terribly strong. We know what we want and we're not weak and fragile."
But Bassey says heartache had benefited her music.
She adds, "I have been burned now and then but, in a sense, it's had some benefits. I couldn't sing the way I do, and feel a song the way I do, if I hadn't been through both the good and the bad times. The truth is, I've been happily married to my profession for years. I decided a while ago there would be no wedding bells for me."
Bassey married first husband Kenneth Hume, a gay film director, in 1962 and divorced him three years later. She divorced second husband Sergio Novak after nine years in 1977.