Lady Gaga announced her engagement to her partner Michael Polansky in April during an interview for U.S. Vogue.
The pop superstar revealed that the entrepreneur had proposed after almost five years of dating, following a day of rock climbing.
“I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind,” Gaga gushed about her fiancé. “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… he wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand. And get to know me. On a very deep level.”
Lady Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, met Michael in 2019 through her mother Cynthia, who runs her Born This Way Foundation.
“My mom met him and she said to me, ‘I think I just met your husband,’ and I said, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!’ I could never have imagined that my mom…found the most perfect person for me?” she shared.
Gaga first met Polansky at a party in December 2019 where they had a three-hour conversation and hit it off.
They continued to talk regularly over the phone and went on their first date, falling in love just before the pandemic hit.
Polansky moved into Lady Gaga’s house in Malibu, California for the lockdown, and they have been living together there for over a year.
“It was really kind of special,” she recalled of that time. “I’d been so focused on my career since I was a teenager. And the gift of that time was that I got to completely focus on my relationship. I met this totally supportive, loving human being who wanted to get to know me – outside of Lady Gaga.”
Gaga, 38, was previously engaged to actor Taylor Kinney and talent agent Christian Carino. Reflecting on those failed relationships, she told the magazine, “I kind of thought I was going to have to do this all by myself – forever. And that was really scary. Because it’s a big life. And I don’t think anyone really knows what it feels like unless you’re in it. And I don’t have to do this alone anymore.”
