Lady Gaga briefly halted her Saturday, December 13, concert in Australia after one of her dancers fell off the stage.
Gaga, 39, had taken her Mayhem Ball Tour to Sydney over the weekend, where one of the backup performers slipped during her rendition of “Garden of Eden.”
“Just one second,” Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) said while interrupting the performance in social media footage. “We just had an accident on stage. Everything’s OK, just everyone wait a second, please.”
Gaga subsequently could be heard checking on her dancer, asking, “Are you OK?”
Once Gaga’s dancer, later identified as Michael Dameski, stood back up, the crew continued on with the show.
Dameski shared an update via social media at the end of the evening.
“Hey everyone, I’m OK. Thank you for checking,” Dameski wrote in a since-expired Instagram Story post, per People. “Happy I was able to finish the last show of the year! The show must go on.”
Gaga announced her latest concert tour, The Mayhem Ball Tour, earlier this year.
“I’m not an adrenaline junkie anymore. I used to love that feeling,” she told Rolling Stone in a November profile, detailing how her approach to touring has changed over the years. “I see all the fans, and I’m in this big dress, and the music is so loud and it’s very dramatic … and for 90 seconds, I have to talk myself out of a panic attack.”
She continued, “The rehearsal of self saves me. Every cell in my body goes, ‘You know what to do.’”
According to Gaga and fiancé Michael Polansky, the pop star is an amalgamation of her stage and backstage personas.
“She’s definitely not Gaga or Stefani,” Polansky, 42, told the outlet. “She’s both, and, yeah, they go together much better than I think people realize.”
Gaga, however, had a slightly different take.
“Lady Gaga’s the person who made Lady Gaga,” she explained. “I think I just feel more relaxed about it all. Like, I am Lady Gaga. You know, this idea that that has to be something specific? I think that’s an old story I used to tell myself. And I don’t really care what anyone calls it anymore. It’s just me.”
Gaga and Polansky have been together since 2019, getting engaged five years later in 2024.
“The missing piece in my life was having real love,” Gaga told Vogue in October 2024 of meeting Polansky. “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!’ I could never have imagined that my mom found the most perfect person for me.”
Gaga’s mother was introduced to Polansky at a charity event shortly before he connected with the singer at a party in Los Angeles.
“I went to the party and I kept asking for him and he finally came over to me and we talked for three hours. We had the most amazing conversation,” Gaga recalled to Vogue. “Then, we went on our first date and just fell in love.”
