During a recent interview with Parade, Lady Gaga opened up about her close friendship and musical relationship with living legend, Tony Bennett.

Gaga explained that after undergoing hip surgery and dealing with people who used her for her fame and money, she went through a period of depression and it was Bennett who brought her out of that sadness and helped "save her life."

"I tell Tony every day that he saved my life... I'm not going to say names, but people get irrational when it comes to money - with how they treat you, with what they expect from you... But if you help an artist, it doesn't give you the right, once the artist is big, to take advantage of them," she explains. "I was so sad. I couldn't sleep. I felt dead. And then I spent a lot more time with Tony. He wanted nothing but my friendship and my voice."

In addition to helping save her life, Gaga revealed that Bennett also helped her make a crucial decision in regards to creating a family with her beau Taylor Kinney.

"I thought I did [want to have kids], because I was feeling kind of finished with all of the chaos of my life," she admitted. "But then I started to spend a lot more time with [Tony], and everything just became simpler, more pure and more perfect. Now I'm going to take a lot more time before I have kids and settle down. I just want to sing."

Bennett and Gaga first announced their musical collaboration and their duet album, "Cheek to Cheek" back in July.

"I love the way she [Lady Gaga] sings. She sings so wonderful and she's actually really a great jazz singer," Bennett told Carson Daly on "The Today Show." "She improvises every time we do a song. We do it over and over, and it's different every time."

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's "Cheek to Cheek" is available on iTunes now.