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Lady Gaga’s fiancé, Michael Polansky, knows just how to leave her “speechless.”
The “Abracadabra” singer, 39, revealed that she received some encouragement from her fiancé and a close friend right before taking the stage at her Mayhem Ball tour stop in her hometown of New York City — where her dreams of stardom were born.
“I think about walking on the concrete, going all around the city and just — I remember fighting really hard, fighting really hard for my dreams and what I believed in and for myself,” she told the audience during her concert on Friday, Aug. 22.
“I was with my friend China before the show… and I said to her, ‘I think I might just fight my way through this whole show, ‘cause when I’m in New York, I fight. I gotta earn it, and I gotta go for it,’ ” she added.
However, Gaga said that her friend told her something that was “really special” to her: “Sometimes you don’t have to fight, you just have to show up.” She told the crowd that those words “meant so much to her,” and her fiancé echoed similar endearing words.
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“Right before I came onstage, my fiancé, Michael, said, ‘When you go out there, let them fill you up,’ ” the singer shared while getting emotional.
She continued introducing the song — “Hair” from her second studio album, Born This Way — which is one she hadn’t yet performed on tour. She noted that the album was “very special” to her.
“I’m sure all my albums could not be made without New York, but I am sure that this album would not have been made without New York,” Gaga said before repeating the words from her friend.
“This is for all of you and for all your dreams, for maybe sometimes no more fighting, just showing up,” she told the crowd.
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Ahead of the show, Gaga and Polansky, 41, were spotted stepping out for a date night in N.Y.C. on Aug. 21 at the celebrity-frequented hot spot The Corner Store. Gaga wore a black catsuit with a cropped, oversized blazer, while Polansky matched in a black hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and black sneakers.
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The two were first photographed kissing at a 2020 New Year’s Eve party in Las Vegas, and they went public with their relationship after spending a PDA-packed weekend together in Miami for Super Bowl 2020.
They have since kept their relationship pretty private, with the “How Bad Do U Want Me” singer only revealing their engagement at the Paris Olympics when she referred to Polansky as her “fiancé.” Since then, the couple has been spotted on multiple date nights together, including an outing to the SNL50 afterparty in February.
Gaga is playing at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 23, 26 and 27. She will return to the city for a pair of Mayhem Ball dates on Sept. 6 and 7.
