Lady Gaga and her partner Christian Carino are engaged. The pop megastar-turned-actress revealed the news at a Women in Hollywood celebration at the Four Seasons, Los Angeles, when she thanked “my fiancé Christian” during her honouree speech, reports Vogue magazine.

Though Gaga and Carino, who is a talent agent, have kept their relationship away from the spotlight since they began dating in early 2017, the performer has previously hinted that he is an integral support mechanism for her.

“The best part about being in love with someone is having them there to catch you if you fall,” Gaga told press during the New York stop of her Joanne world tour, and Carino was pictured embracing his partner before her Super Bowl halftime performance in 2017.

Her speech at the annual recognition of female talent also touched upon the critical acclaim she has achieved in the Bradley Cooper-directed biopic, A Star is Born.

“Never within my wildest dreams would I think my life would become what it has,” Gaga told the audience, before touching on why she had decided to wear Marc Jacobs tailoring to the event. “As a sexual assault survivor by someone in the entertainment industry, as a woman who is still not brave enough to say his name, as a woman who lives with chronic pain, as a woman who from a very young age who was conditioned to do what men told me to do, I decided today I wanted to take the power back. Today I wear the suit.”