Lady Gaga's mother was in tears on the set of her new music promo after the singer refused to use a stunt double.

The eccentric star recently unveiled the video to accompany her new single Marry the Night. In the clip which is almost 14 minutes long Gaga is seen playing the piano naked and being wheeled into a psychiatric ward.

One scene features a series of exploding cars and Gaga insisted on being involved in the stunt which upset her mom Cynthia Germanotta.

"We really lit the cars on fire, we really exploded them. My dad and my mom were in a car somewhere and my mom was like crying and so upset because I didn't want to use a stunt double," she said during an interview on music video website Vevo. "I never use doubles for anything. So we filmed this shot of the explosion and I remember thinking back then if they told me I could stand 15 feet away from a car while it explodes in a music video, I wouldn't have flinched.

"So don't flinch now. I just stood there. If you flinch after all that - it's like taking a sip of water when you're ten feet from the end of a marathon. What a jackass."

Gaga recently revealed that the video was inspired by being dropped by her first record label and fearing her career was over.

She directed the promo and is proud with how it turned out.

"It is autobiographical, so the entire story's true," she explained. "It's though the lens of how I choose to repaint my past."

Marry the Night is the latest track to be released from Gaga's album Born This Way.