Here’s if Lady Gaga Is Still Together With Her Fiancé After Calling Off 2 Other Engagements

Matthew “Dada” Williams (2008)

Don’t worry if you don’t know who Dada is. Dada and Gaga met when he started as a creative director for Haus of Gaga in 2008. The two dated for a hot second before their split (which was around the time the “Bad Romance” singer’s career skyrocketed). After their breakup, Dada continued to work for Gaga until 2010.

In an interview with Evening Standard in October 2010, Gaga revealed that she broke up with Dada after she realized that they were better as business partners than as lovers. “Dada is quite brilliant and we were crazy lovers, but I stopped it when we discovered what a strong creative connection we had,” she said at the time. “I didn’t want it just to be about careless love.”

Lüc Carl (2005 – 2008)

Before her come-up in 2008, Gaga dated Carl, a bar owner and nightclub promoter in New York City, on and off for three years. Though their relationship didn’t last, Gaga told Rolling Stone in 2009 that the romance changed how she views love. The singer also revealed that her 2011 song, “You and I,” was written about her ex.

“[I’ve] really never loved anyone like I loved him. Or like I love him,” Gaga said of Carl at the time. “That relationship really shaped me. I sort of resolved that if you can’t have the guy of your dreams, there are other ways to give love.”

Taylor Kinney (July 2011 – July 2016)

Kinney, an actor on Chicago Fire, is Gaga’s longest relationship in the spotlight. The two met on the set of her “You and I” music video (which was written about her ex) in 2011. Kinney played Gaga’s love interest, and soon their romance became IRL. “We had a good time. I think there was chemistry,” Taylor said of Gaga on Watch What Happens Live in 2011. “I remember it was a late shoot. We were shooting until 4 or 5 in the morning or something like that. We exchanged information. A few weeks went by and we kept in touch, and then that’s that.”

Kinney proposed to Gaga on Valentine’s Day 2015 with a heart-shaped diamond ring. The two made their relationship red carpet official at the Oscars later that year. However, a year after their engagement, Kinney and Gaga called it quits. The “Alejandro” singer announced the breakup in an Instagram post at the time.

“Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break,” she wrote. “We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We’re just like everybody else and we really love each other.” Despite Gaga claiming that the two were simply “taking a break,” the pop star and The Vampire Diaries alum never reunited romantically.

Christian Carino (February 2017 – February 2019)

Gaga’s next public relationship came a year after her split with Kinney. In January 2017, Gaga and Carino, a talent agent, were seen at a Kings of Leon concert. A month later, Carino was photographed with Gaga at the 2017 Super Bowl, where she performed the halftime show. Gaga and Carino got engaged in November 2017 (after she showed off her engagement ring on Instagram), but it wasn’t until almost a year later, in October 2018, that the “Bad Romance” singer confirmed the engagement.

However, as most of us know, Carino and Gaga didn’t work out. Before their split in February 2019, Gaga thwarted rumors that she and her A Star Is Born costar, Bradley Cooper, were in a secret relationship. According to some sources, this led to Gaga and Carino’s split before her performance with Cooper at the Oscars that year. “[Carino] didn’t treat Gaga very well toward the end of their relationship,” a source told Us Weekly at the time. “He was jealous. He was trying to find her all the time and texted her a lot. Her friends didn’t like him either.”

The insider also claimed that Carino “infringed on her creative process,” which led Gaga to call it on their relationship. “[She] couldn’t risk jeopardizing her career in that way, over a man, and that’s not something she would stand for,” the source said.

Dan Horton (July 2019 – October 2019)

Horton and Gaga had a short relationship in the summer of 2019. In July 2019, a source told People that the two were seen kissing and seemed to be in a romantic relationship. “They were kissing as they spoke really close up…Ironically, she had a table in the front near the sidewalk, so she was clearly okay with being seen,” the insider said. “She seemed very happy when interacting with the guy she was with.”

A source for Entertainment Tonight later revealed that Horton is a sound engineer who worked on Gaga’s sixth album, Chromatica. “They have been seeing each other for weeks and have been working with each other for a while,” the insider said. “They have been working on new music, have spent hours of work time together, and became really close.”

However, the relationship didn’t last. In October 2019, Gaga confirmed that she and Horton after she posted a photo with a friend at a Bachelorette party with the caption: “An about to be married woman and me, a single lady.” A source told Us Weekly at the time that “Dan was not mature enough for her.”

Michael Polansky (December 2019 – Present)

Gaga’s current fiancé is Michael Polansky, a Harvard graduate and an executive at the Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and The Parker Foundation. Rumors flew that Gaga had a new boyfriend on New Year’s 2020 when she was seen kissing a mystery man (who was later identified as Polansky.)

A source told E! News at the time that the two had been dating “for a month.” “They’ve been seeing each other since before the holidays and she’s crazy about him…They had already been seeing each other for weeks.”

Since then, Gaga has posted several photos of her and her new beau on Instagram. But that doesn’t mean they’re serious. A source told Us Weekly in February 2020: “They are not serious. She’s having fun and likes the attention, but he is not the only guy she’s interested in. Despite sharing a pic of them on Instagram together, she hasn’t been making a big deal about Michael to her friends.” Gaga and Polansky made their red carpet debut together at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards, where she was nominated for her role in House of Gucci.

A source told People that they bonded over their “focus” on charity. “They get takeout from local restaurants or hang out with friends at home,” the source said. “When they are together, it’s obvious that Gaga is crazy about him. She always giggles and touches him. They are very affectionate and have the best chemistry.”

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2021, Gaga called Polansky and her dogs her “whole life” after two men attacked her dog walker, Ryan Fischer, and took her two dogs, Koji and Gustav while she was in Rome filming House of Gucci in early 2021. “Everybody’s OK,” Gaga said at the time. “Everybody’s healing. I pray for Ryan all the time. I’m so grateful that we did not lose him. And every day I thank God for the safe return of my dogs.” She continued, “My dogs and the man that I love are my whole life.”

In a cover story with Vogue, Lady Gaga confirmed that she and Polansky were engaged and recounted how they met. “My mom met him and she said to me, ‘I think I just met your husband,’ and I said, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!’ I could never have imagined that my mom…found the most perfect person for me?”

She found out that he was in attendance at Sean Parker’s birthday party and had a mission. “I got invited and I said, ‘I wonder if Michael is going to be there,’ and my mom said yes, and 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.”

Gaga revealed exactly how Michael proposed to her in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “We climbed to the top, we looked around, took some photos. And then went back down and we were just walking back to the room, talking. And he actually — it was very Michael — he asked me if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed. And I was like, ‘Yes, it’s so OK!’”

After Kimmel questioned why Polansky didn’t propose when they were at the top of the rock, Gaga noted, “I think it was smart. It was safe. He had the ring in his backpack, so it was super cute.”

As for their wedding plans, she says it could go two ways. “We actually talk a lot of about just going to a courthouse just the two of us and just ordering Chinese food,” she said before adding, “But knowing me, also it could become a circus with unicorns.”

Polansky is credited with writing seven songs off of Mayhem. The song “Blade of Grass” is about their proposal. “I fell in love with Michael,” she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “As a songwriter, you need life to inspire your writing. Michael asked me how I would want him to propose to me one day. We were in our backyard and I said “just take a blade of grass and wrap it around my finger”. And then I wrote “Blade of grass” cause I remembered the way his face looked, and I remembered the grass in the backyard and remember thinking he should use that really long grass that’s in the center of the backyard.”