Lady Gaga gives rare interview about her ‘kind’ fiancé Michael Polansky as The Joker star reveals he ‘held her hand during really dark mental health battle which lasted for many years’

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 was first romantically linked the 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. 

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 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.’ 

In July, the Bad Romance songstress dedicated one of her final Las Vegas residency performances to Polansky, calling him ‘my mister.’

Vogue’s October 2024 issue is available on newsstands nationwide on September 24

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.

Wedding plans for the couple are underway and their legal plan is being negotiated. 

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 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.