London, Feb 7: Drew Barrymore blames her new tongue piercing for being unlucky in love.

The Charlie's Angels star, who underwent the painful decorative procedure after splitting from her ex-boyfriend, comedy actor Justin Long, fears that her bejewelled mouth organ makes potential suitors turned off.

She revealed on Ellen DeGeneres' chatshow: "I have had it for nine months, I got it and I have been single ever since. I don't know what the deal is with that.

"I luckily did it for myself. I had always wanted to get one."

The beauty admitted she couldn't eat or drink for weeks after the piercing, reports the Sun.

She added: "After it was done I was like, `Oh my God why wouldn't people do this? It doesn't hurt at all,' and the guy said, `What I didn't tell you is that for the next two weeks it is going to be a little uncomfortable.'

"Two hours later I couldn't eat or drink for two weeks, it was a great diet in a weird way, a sick and sadistic diet and after that it was fine." (ANI)