Lady Gaga Gushes About Fiancé Michael Polansky: ‘When You Are With Your Best Friend Everything Changes’

Lady Gaga is smitten. During a red carpet chat at Monday’s (Sept. 30) Los Angeles premiere of  Joker: Folie à Deux the singer could not stop gushing about her fiancé, tech entrepreneur Michael Polansky, with whom she collaborated on her just-released Joker companion album, Harlequin.

“It’s just the first time that we decided to fully just go into it and do it. It just felt right,” she told People magazine of Polansky serving as the co-executive producer of the LP that features a mix of jazzy standards and two new songs. “We were both so excited. We were all warmed up and ready to go.” Polansky also has co-writing credits on a few songs on Harlequin, including “Good Morning,” “Get Happy,” “Oh, When the Saints” and “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” standards that the pair gave lyrical and musical refreshers.

Gaga and Polansky were first spotted kissing at a 2020 New Year’s Eve party before making their relationship Instagram official with a post that February from the Super Bowl in Miami. The singer made it super official by referring to Polansky as “the love of my life” in an interview later that year. Their engagement was revealed, by accident it seems, at this summer’s Paris Olympics when the French Prime Minister’s office leaked the news.

“I just love my fiancé so much,” she told People. “He’s my best friend. He’s my partner, and I just feel like when you are with your best friend, everything changes.” In a recent interview, Gaga also credited Polansky with helping to inspire her upcoming, as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, saying that he was the one who convinced her to make a full-on pop album. “He was like, ‘Babe, I love you. You need to make pop music,” she said of the record due out in February.

Gaga also did a bit of manifesting recently in an interview promoting the sequel that is due out on Friday (Oct. 4) when she said, “I’m so happy to be in love, and I’m so excited to have a family. That’s definitely number one, but also, I really believe in the ability to grow as a person. That feeling can give everybody hope. I just want to keep growing.”

Watch the red carpet interview below.

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