After successful Artist of the Yr on the 2025 MTV Video Music AwardsGaga thanked Polansky in a candy shout-out. “Thanks Little Monsters, my followers, for all the time supporting me and all the time supporting the monster in me and to my companion in all issues, Michael,” she mentioned throughout her acceptance speech on September 7. “Creating this yr with you was a fantastic, lovely dream, and you’ve got been my companion each step of the way in which. I dedicate this to you, my love.”
Gaga, who received 4 awards complete that night, gave a uncommon glimpse at her relationship with Polansky the next day by way of an Instagram tribute.
“Dreaming up this album, making the plan, constructing each imaginative and prescient with you — speaking endlessly about what we’d create and do for monsters has been an expertise I couldn’t have ever imagined,” she captioned the September 8 submit, thanking her companion for his assistance on Mayhem. “I really like how a lot you like my followers and need them to be glad🖤 it fills my coronary heart with happiness how a lot you like them as a result of we get to like them every single day collectively — you care as a lot as I do about folks feeling seen on this planet.”
She gushed, “I am perpetually grateful for the way a lot you like and combat for me. You’re employed so so laborious with me from daybreak until nightfall on a regular basis dwelling the music, performances, and plans along with your blood sweat and tears — to see it via each step of the way in which this yr I’m the luckiest lady alive. I really like you endlessly.”
Gaga referred to as Polansky “a real renaissance man,” who has proven her a love she’s “by no means identified” by being a artistic companion in life and love. “You’re MY artist of the yr. And the love of my life,” she concluded.