--- title: Lady Gaga Posts Breakup Instagram After Split From Taylor Kinney description: Lady Gaga took to Instagram on Tuesday night to address her recent split from fiancee Taylor Kinney. canonical: https://time.com/4414673/lady-gaga-taylor-kinney-split-instagram/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-20T15:00:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:34.341Z og:title: Read Lady Gaga's Bittersweet Breakup Instagram Post og:description: "Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break." og:url: https://time.com/4414673/lady-gaga-taylor-kinney-split-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Lady Gaga's Bittersweet Breakup Instagram Post twitter:description: "Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Read Lady Gaga's Bittersweet Instagram Post About Split With Taylor Kinney > Sponsored content. 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[Lady Gaga](http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,81660577001%5F1986210,00.html) proved this was true when she took to Instagram on Tuesday night, following the [news that she and long-time flame Taylor Kinney called it quits](http://time.com/4413068/lady-gaga-taylor-kinney-break-up/) after five years together and getting engaged last year. While it wasn’t quite a [“conscious uncoupling”](http://time.com/3982125/gwyneth-paltrow-chris-martin-conscious-uncoupling/) statement, Gaga’s post is bittersweet, with the pop singer noting that she and Kinney “always believed we are soulmates” and that their current relationship status was “taking a break.” She then went on to write that their long-distance relationship and schedules complicated “the simple love we have always shared.” She ended by urging her fans to “Please root us on. 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