Lady Gaga has shared a rare details about her relationship with fiancé Michael Polansky, revealing how he supported her during a challenging period of her mental health.
The Oscar-winning singer and the tech entrepreneur first sparked romance rumours around New Year's Eve 2019 and went Instagram official in early 2020.
Despite their high-profile statuses, the couple has kept their relationship relatively private.
In a revealing interview with for Vogue’s October issue, the global superstar spoke warmly of her "kind" and "smart" partner.
“I had never met anyone like Michael,” she shared. “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.”
The global superstar went on to praise him for being a steadfast source of support through her toughest times and assured her fans that she’s doing better with Polansky by her side.
“But I think what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy,” she continued.
“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. 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.”
Her comments come after the couple made their red carpet debut at the Venice International Film Festival for the world premiere of Joker: Folie A Deux alongside co-star Joaquin Phoenix.
She arrived on the red carpet in a Christian Dior black dress with a plunging neckline and scalloped skirt, paired with a theatrical lace headpiece from Philip Treacy and sparkling jewellery from Tiffany & Co.
Gaga confirmed her engagement to the investor as she watched the swimming finals at the Paris Olympics, introducing Mr Polansky as “my fiance” to the French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
Gaga plays Harley Quinn, love interest of the Joker (Phoenix), in the new film from Todd Phillips – which comes five years after the first film won the coveted Golden Lion.
She said she made the decision to star in films including Joker: Folie A Deux to “help people feel good about life” and allow them to “escape into another world”.
Speaking at an earlier conference about why she chose to move into acting, Gaga said: “The reason I started making music when I was really little was because I just had something to say, and trying to figure out how to do that.
“One of the reasons I love music and I love movies so much is the stories that you get to tell, and the way that we get to express something to the world that will hopefully help people feel good about life and give them a moment to escape into another world to fall into somebody else’s story.
“I think that what I really meant to say is that I believe that movies have a tremendous power to change the way people feel, and that’s part of why I love to create.”
Joker: Folie A Deux will be released in UK cinemas on October 4.
It follows the story of the Joker and Harley Quinn meeting while incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital, and after he is released the pair embark on a doomed romantic adventure.
