Lady Gaga Says Her Mom Cynthia Germanotta Told Her She'd Marry Michael Polansky Before They Met: 'I'm Not Ready'

Mar. 15, 2025

Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky attend the “Joker: Folie a Deux” red carpet during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 4, 2024.Photo:Pascal Le Segretain/Getty

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty

Lady Gaga’s mom moonlit as her matchmaker!

In the Octobercover story forVogue, theJoker: Folie à Deuxstar, 38, explained that her momCynthia Germanottamet her fiancéMichael Polanskybefore she did and had a premonition that initially shocked the pop star (born Stefani Germanotta).

“My mom met him and she said to me, ‘I think I just met your husband,’ Gaga recalled to the magazine. “I said, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!'”

Added the “Born This Way” singer: “I could never have imagined that my mom … found the most perfect person for me?’

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Lady Gaga on the cover of ‘Vogue.'.Ethan James Green/Vogue

Ethan James Green/Vogue

But it looks like mother knows best. Polansky, 46, and the multihyphenategot engagedearlier in 2024 after five years of dating. She revealed their engagement to French Prime MinisterGabriel Attalat the2024 Paris Olympics, where she performed at the opening ceremony.

A source later told PEOPLE that the couple had beenengaged for monthsand were waiting for the right time to share the news with the world.

InVogueGaga recalled meeting the entrepreneur and tech investor at Napster Founder and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker’s birthday party in December 2019 after her mother had met him through her philanthropic work.

Polansky went to Harvard at the same time that Parker and Mark Zuckerberg did.

Lady Gaga and Polansky in Italy.Jacopo Raule/FilmMagic

Jacopo Raule/FilmMagic

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“I got invited [to Parker’s party] and I said, ‘I wonder if Michael is going to be there,’ and my mom said yes,” theA Star Is Bornactress said. “So I went to the ​party and I kept asking for him and he finally came over to me and we talked for three hours. We had the most amazing conversation.”

Polansky also recalled the couple’s first meeting in theVoguecover story.

The rest is history.

Gaga told the magazine that they talked for weeks before their first date, where they “fell in love” and then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Polansky moved from San Francisco into Gaga’s Malibu home to ride out the early days of quarantine.

Lady Gaga for ‘Vogue.'.Ethan James Green/Vogue

“I’d been so focused on my career since I was a teenager. And the gift of that time was that I got to completely focus on my relationship,” she said of that time in their relationship. “I met this totally supportive, loving human being who wanted to get to know me — outside of Lady Gaga.”

But Polansky — who asked Gaga to marry him after aday of rock climbing— also encouraged his partner to embrace her love of pop music.

“Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record. He was like, ‘Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music,” she toldVogue.

“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,sohappy,” she said of her fiancé.

source: people.com