Lady Gaga faced the ‘scary’ reality of dying alone before finding love
Lady Gaga feared she would spend the rest of her life alone before finding love with Michael Polansky, she revealed in a new interview.
September 6, 2024, published at 8:57 PM ET
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Polansky stood by his fiancée’s side at the world premiere of ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ at the Venice Film Festival.
Of wedding plans in the works the lovebirds were interviewed by Fashion on Thursday and Gaga gushed about the “friendly” and “smart” tech entrepreneur. She said:[H]He is not with me for any other reason than that we are good for each other.”
The singer, who plays Harley Quinn in the upcoming sequel Joker: Folie à Deux, was engaged twice before Polanski. When the interviewer brought up her failed relationship with her Taylor Kinney And Christian Carinoshe admitted, “I actually thought I had to do this all by myself –forever.”
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She continued: “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.”
The entertainer said she had “never met anyone like Michael,” noting that “his life and my life are very different.”
Their relationship blossomed during the pandemic because it gave Gaga “an opportunity to slow down,” Polansky said, explaining, “She has been operating at an unfathomable level of intensity for years and it’s no secret that it has caught up with her. ”
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The pandemic brought the couple closer together because it allowed Gaga to “slow down,” they said.
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He continued: “We had an amazing chapter of a strange kind of normalcy that is essential to the development of any relationship: walking, making coffee, hanging out with the dogs, reading books together…”
But while the pandemic brought the couple closer together, it also discouraged Gaga from seeing the loneliness that plagues so many people in isolation.
She recalled, “It was very painful to see how deeply it affected the world. Not just how sick people got, so many people died, but so many people were alone.”
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The Joker sequel will hit theaters in October.
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“I’m very grateful that I wasn’t the only one. I had never met anyone like Michael,” she added.
The singer of A star is born wanted her fans to know she was “so happy” and “healthy” because “the last time they heard from me… I was in a very dark place.”
Her 2020 album, Chromatica, “It was an absolutely horrible time for me in terms of my mental health,” she explained.
Gaga confessed that she “struggled for, like, a lot of year before,” but said “everything started to change” with Polansky.
She called him “a true friend who… ways where I was unhappy and why,” adding, “And he wasn’t afraid to actually hold my hand. And get to know me. On a very deep level.”
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