UPDATE: Lady Gaga took to Instagram to address the status of her relationship with Taylor Kinney. With a black and white photo of the couple walking together, the singer writes: "Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break. We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We're just like everybody else and we really love each other." 
 
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 It looks like there's hope after all! 
 
 Many fans' hearts broke earlier today upon the news of Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney's engagement being called off, however, it seems like the famous pair aren't absolutely, completely, for sure, done. 
 
 The singer's rep re-sparked the dying flame by telling E! News, "They are taking a break." Furthermore, a source tells the mag that their schedules definitely made things difficult, but they're not ready to completely throw in the towel just yet. 
 
 "She's working on an album, he's working on his show, they aren't in the same state, it was just hard," the insider said. "They both love each other very much and they want it to work. It's just been tough with the long distance." 

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 No one is hoping for a reconciliation with fiancé Taylor Kinney more than Lady Gaga herself. 
 
 After “Page Six TV’s” Carlos Greer reported the “American Horror Story” actress and “Chicago Fire” actor are on a break, Gaga shared a touching photo of the two on Instagram. 
 
 “Taylor and I always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break,” Gaga wrote Tuesday. “We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We’re just like everybody else and we really love each other.” 
 
 TMZ was first to report that Gaga, 30, and Kinney, 35, decided to part ways after five years together. And while they got engaged on Valentine’s Day last year, as sources told Page Six, conflicting schedules played a part in the split. 
 
 “They realized they needed a break when she started working on her album. He started shooting the show [‘Chicago Fire’] and they weren’t spending as much time together. They stopped seeing each other so much and they drifted apart. They’re both focusing on their careers but are in constant communication,” the source said. 

 Turns out distance does not make the heart grow fonder — at least not in Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney’s case. 
 
 A source tells Us Weekly that the formerly engaged couple grew apart because of the time they spent away from each other due to their busy work schedules. 
 
 
 
 “It’s really sad and [Gaga’s] really torn up. They thought they’d be together forever. Distance was a big part of it,” an insider tells Us. “They weren’t together a lot.” 
 
 While Gaga, 30, owns a home in Malibu, Kinney, 35, is stationed in Chicago, where he films his NBC series, Chicago Fire. 
 
 
 
 “They had a good life and a lot in common, but were ultimately too different. I know he was always in Chicago and she went there all the time, but really had to be in L.A. or on tour, and it was hard for them to make their schedules work,” the source adds. “Distance was definitely a big, big issue." 
 
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 As previously confirmed by Us on Tuesday, July 19, the pair decided to call it quits earlier this month after five years together. 
 
 Gaga and Kinney first met on the set of the pop superstar’s “Yoü and I” music video in 2011, in which the hunky actor played her love interest. Several months later, the pair struck up a romance. While they broke up for a brief period in May 2012, they got back together a month later. 
 
 
 
 In February 2015, Gaga took to Instagram to let her Little Monsters know that she and Kinney had plans to get married. “He gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!” she wrote alongside a photo of her massive heart-shape diamond sparkler. 
 
 Days before news of their split broke, Gaga was spotted without her engagement ring while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with friends and family, including her mom, Cynthia Germanotta. Clad in a sexy pink swimsuit, the “Bad Romance” singer kept a low profile by hiding behind a pair of oversize white sunglasses. 
 
 
 
 This would have been the first marriage for both Gaga and Kinney. 
 
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– Maybe there will be a wedding after all: After news broke that Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney had called off their engagement, Gaga posted a picture of them on Instagram Tuesday. "Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break," she wrote. "We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We're just like everybody else and we really love each other." Prior to the post, a rep for Gaga told E! the couple was just "taking a break," and a source told the magazine that they were simply having trouble dealing with their conflicting schedules and having to be far apart from one another, but that they weren't necessarily broken up for good. Other sources agreed that distance was the main issue, but those sources seemed to paint the split as more permanent: An Us source said "they thought they’d be together forever" and that Gaga was "really torn up," while a Page Six source said "they drifted apart."