Lady Gaga has opened up about her love for fiancé Michael Polansky as she reveals he helped her through a dark period in her life in which she struggled with her mental health.
The Joker star, 38, was first romantically linked the tech entrepreneur linked around New Year’s Eve 2019 and later went Instagram official in early 2020, with the couple remaining relatively private about their relationship.
However, in a candid new interview with Vogue, in which she poses in a number of striking looks, Lady Gaga gushed over her ‘kind’ and ‘smart’ partner, before praising him for ‘holding her hand’ through difficult times.
She said: ‘I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different. He’s a very private guy and he’s not with me for any other reason than that we are right for each other.
‘But I think what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy. I feel like the last time they heard from me—in this way—was Chromatica, and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place.
Lady Gaga has opened up about her love for fiancé Michael Polansky as she reveals he helped her through a dark period in her life in which she struggled with her mental health
In a candid new interview with Vogue , in which she poses in a number of striking looks, Lady Gaga gushed over her ‘kind’ and ‘smart’ partner, before praising him for ‘holding her hand’ through difficult times
The Joker star was first romantically linked the tech entrepreneur linked around New Year’s Eve 2019 and later went Instagram official in early 2020, with the couple remaining relatively private about their relationship
‘I struggled for, like, many years before that. But everything started to change. Because I had a real friend who saw the ways in which I was unhappy and why. And he wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand. And get to know me. On a very deep level.’
While her Chromatica album came during a tough period for the chart-topper, physically she was in a much better place as the star suggested that her years-long struggle with chronic condition Fibromyalgia was in remission.
She remarked that the 2022 tour of the album was the ‘first time’ she’d performed without pain in as long as she could remember, while during the tour, her awe-struck fiancé ‘saw a fire in her’, leading him to encourage her to make another pop album.
The couple’s engagement was revealed to the world in July this year, with Michael actually getting down on one knee back in April after a day of rock climbing.
Wedding plans for the couple are underway and their legal plan is being negotiated.
And while Lady Gaga – real name Stefani Germanotta – couldn’t speak highly enough of her love, she told how it was actually her mother Cynthia who met him first and thought he was perfect for her daughter, telling the singer: ‘I think I just met your husband!’
While Gaga was at first apprehensive after insisting to her mother that she was ‘not ready’ to meet her husband, she noted to the publication that she was later excited at the prospect of bumping into him at Facebook founding president Sean Parker’s 40th birthday party.
After she did indeed run into Michael, the star recalled how they spoke for ‘three hours’ and had the most ‘amazing conversation’, with their meeting later leading to weeks worth of phone calls ahead of them finally going on a first date together where they ‘fell in love’.
‘I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different. He’s a very private guy and he’s not with me for any other reason than that we are right for each other’
‘I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy. I feel like the last time they heard from me—in this way—was Chromatica, and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place’
Vogue’s October 2024 issue is available on newsstands nationwide on September 24
The pair’s relationship blossomed as Covid hit and they hunkered down in her Malibu abode for over a year, with Gaga describing the break from her busy schedule and cohabitation with the businessman as ‘really kind of special’
Meanwhile, Michael added to Vogue that spending the lockdown together in which they ate pizza and enjoyed walks and coffee together as a ‘weird kind of normalcy’ which allowed their relationship to develop in a ‘real way’.
In July, the Bad Romance songstress dedicated one of her final Las Vegas residency performances to Polansky, calling him ‘my mister.’
Polansky is a 2006 graduate of Harvard University and runs Napster founder Sean Parker’s Parker Group.
Throughout their years dating, Gaga and Polansky have attended the Super Bowl, the BAFTAs, and the Critics Choice Awards together.
Lady Gaga and Michael reportedly decided to go their separate ways in early 2023 due to the singer-songwriter wanting marriage and children and the tech executive not being ready to take those steps.
The pair reportedly had an amicable dissolution to their coupling, and remained friends.
Then, in August 2023 they were spotted together for the first time in more than a year.
The singer has always been open about her desire to have a big family and in 2013, she told Sirius XM radio she wants ‘at least three kids’.
She said: ‘I wanna have tons of kids. I think at least three. I really want to have a family. I really want to have a family, I really want to nurture my children.
‘Having my own kids will be like having three little monsters with me all the time. They probably won’t be fans, they will probably hate my music – who knows.
‘I want to have a family, I want a family life. I grew up with a very strong family and I can’t imagine not having a normal nuclear family.’
The star recalled how they spoke for ‘three hours’ at a party and had the most ‘amazing conversation’, with their meeting later leading to weeks worth of phone calls ahead of them finally going on a first date together where they ‘fell in love’.
The pair’s relationship blossomed as Covid hit and they hunkered down in her Malibu abode for over a year, with Gaga describing the break from her busy schedule and cohabitation with the businessman as ‘really kind of special’
She also expressed the desire to start a family with Michael, 46, back in 2021 after their relationship started heating up.
‘She has been telling her friends that she wants to get through a few projects and then focus on settling down,’ a source told Entertainment Tonight at the time.
‘Gaga wants to have children one day and sees a future with Michael.’
The entertainer had two previous engagements that were called off.
She ended her engagement to Christian Carino in early 2019, and after becoming engaged to actor Taylor Kinney in 2015 they broke up in 2016.