Lady Gaga's Interesting Relationship History

In the 2017 documentary 'Gaga: Five Foot Two,' the singer shared that her relationships tend to end whenever she achieves a career milestone. She explained that it's as though there is a change in her personality that leads to the dissolution of her love life.

Gaga dated on and off for five years with bartender and musician Lüc Carl, whom she met in New York in 2005, just as the singer was beginning to gain popularity. The couple resumed their romance briefly in July 2010, before breaking up again later that year. "I've never really loved anyone the way I loved him. Or the way I love him," she told Rolling Stone of Carl in 2009. "That relationship really shaped me. I resolved that if you can't have the man of your dreams, there are other ways of giving love. Gaga admitted that her relationship with Carl inspired much of her early music.

The singer dated fashion designer Matthew Dada Williams, who worked as creative director at her Haus of Gaga label from 2008 to 2010. "Dada is quite brilliant and we were crazy lovers, but I stopped it when we discovered what a strong creative connection we had. I didn’t want it just to be about careless love," she told The Evening Standard in 2010.

Gaga and Taylor Kinney first met on the set of her music video for 'Yoü and I' in 2011, in which Kinney played her partner. Although the singer and actor were spotted together in California over Labor Day weekend that year, they kept their relationship relatively private until Gaga mentioned Kinney on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' in 2013. Gaga stated, "Having your lover as your best friend is the best thing ever." Kinney proposed to Gaga on Valentine's Day 2015 at her family's restaurant in New York. In July 2016, after months of speculation, Gaga officially announced that she and Kinney had ended their engagement. A source told 'PEOPLE' at the time, "She's working on an album, he's working on his show, it was tough."

Gaga was first spotted with talent agent Christian Carino in January 2017 at a Kings of Leon concert. In September of that same year, Gaga announced during her New York City Field concert that she was "in love" with Carino. Confirming engagement rumors, Gaga referred to Carino as her "fiancé" during a speech at 'ELLE's Women of Hollywood' gala. The couple attended various events together, including the '76th Golden Globe' Awards in January 2019. However, a source revealed to 'PEOPLE' in February 2019 that the engagement had ended, stating "It just didn't work out. Relationships sometimes end. There is no long, dramatic story."

Gaga was spotted kissing her monitor engineer, Daniel Horton, during a brunch date at Granville restaurant in Studio City, California, in July 2019. The pair were also seen together a month later at the Pasadena Daydream Music Festival in California. However, in October 2019, Gaga announced their separation via an Instagram story, referring to herself as "a single woman."

Gaga has also spoken about being unhappy when she's single. "It was a really hard process for me because I was going through a time in my life...I was actually having a lot of trouble with it, I did not like being single,” she shared in a March 2020 interview on 'The Kyle & Jackie O Show'. "I felt like my career had taken over and my personal life was something I didn't have a lot of time to chase and control and it made me really sad," Gaga added.

Gaga was first seen kissing businessman Michael Polansky at a New Year's party in Las Vegas to ring in 2020. A few weeks later, the couple made their relationship Instagram official after a weekend of public displays of affection in Miami for Super Bowl LIV. In the following months, Gaga posted a sweet Valentine's tribute to Polansky, and later declared her "STUPID love" for him in a subsequent post in March. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple quarantined together, and in April 2020, Gaga called him "the love of my life" in a virtual interview on 'MSNBC's Morning Joe'.

According to The 'Hollywood Reporter' in November 2021, Gaga shared that her boyfriend, Polansky, and her dogs are her "entire life" after her dog walker was attacked. Later that month, a source informed 'PEOPLE' that the couple "seemed to be in no rush to get engaged" and that they "already acted like a married couple." On January 20, 2021, the couple made a rare public appearance at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington D.C. Their next public appearance occurred over a year later, in March 2022, when they attended the '27th Critics Choice' Awards.

In 2024, Lady Gaga revealed that she is indeed engaged to Michael Polansky! She sparked engagement rumours after calling him her "fiancé" at the Paris Olympics! We extend our best wishes to her for both personal and professional success!