Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky were set up by the pop star’s mom, which she discussed in last night’s opening monologue. “My mom called me one day, and she goes, ‘I met your husband,’” Gaga recalled. “And I said, ‘What does he do?’ And she said, ‘He works in cancer research.’”
Gaga noted she was “literally smoking a cigarette” during that call, adding “And then we went on three dates and I never smoked again…except when I’m drunk.”
Gaga first debuted her engagement ring at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024, five months after Polansky proposed during a rock climbing trip on April Fool’s Day.
“He didn’t propose to me at the top. We climbed up to the top and we looked around and took some photos and then we went back down,” Gaga said during an October appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “And we were just walking back to the room and talking and he said—it was very Michael, to ask me if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed.”
She continued, “he had the ring in his backpack, so it was so super cute, he like got into his backpack and pulled it out.”
No wonder he didn’t propose at the top! Can you imagine accidentally dropping that ring off the side of a cliff? It would’ve been absolute mayhem.