Lady Gaga’s mother knew before she knew it herself that Michael Polansky would become someone special in her daughter’s life.

The Joker: Foil for Two actress, who became engaged to the entrepreneur in April, revealed in a new Fashion cover story that she met her fiancé in 2019 through her mother, Cynthia Germanotta. Germanotta, who runs Gaga’s foundation Born This Way, met Polansky through a philanthropic partnership.

“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!'” Gaga said. “I never could have imagined that my mom would… find the most perfect person for me?”

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But never doubt a mother’s intuition, because sparks flew when the two met at Facebook founder Sean Parker’s 40th birthday party in Los Angeles in December.

“I got invited and I said, ‘I wonder if Michael’s going to be there,’ and my mom said yes, and so I went to the party and I kept asking about him and finally he came up to me and we talked for three hours,” Gaga recalled. “We had the most amazing conversation.”

Gaga and Polansky spoke on the phone for weeks before they “went on our first date” and “just fell in love.” Polansky also lived with Gaga at her Malibu home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was really special,” she said of that time. “I had been so focused on my career since I was a teenager. And the gift of that time was that I was able to focus completely on my relationship. I met a totally supportive, loving person who wanted to get to know me — outside of Lady Gaga.”

Still, Gaga acknowledged that the pandemic has not been a positive time for many others.

“It was really painful to see how deeply it affected the world,” she explained. “Not only how sick people were, how many people were dying, but how many people were alone. I’m just so grateful that I wasn’t alone. I’ve never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different. He’s a very private man and he’s not with me for any reason other than we’re a good fit. But I think I just want my fans to know that I’m just, I’m so happy. I’m healthy.”

The “Lovegame” singer added that her 2020 album Chromatic was the last time her fan base “heard from me” in this way.

“That album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place. I struggled with it for years. But everything started to change,” she said. “Because I had a real friend who saw how I was unhappy and why. And he wasn’t afraid to really hold my hand. And get to know me. On a really deep level.”