According to Entertainment Tonight, Taylor discussed the age difference between her and her new girlfriend during an interview with the public-radio station WNYC.
"There's a very big age difference between us which I'm sure shocks a lot of people, and it startles me," Taylor said. "But as they say, 'If she dies, she dies.'"
She also opened up about the possibility of marriage in the future, saying, "I would not do that publicly. My relationship is with a woman, and I have not — given my generation it would not be something that would automatically occur to me. But she's mentioned it because just from a spiritual point of view, from a heart point of view ... as a deed that has a very rich symbolic gesture to it, it has its attraction."
She didn't reveal the name of her partner, but later that month Taylor posted a photo of Paulson in a gown on Twitter with the caption, "When captions fail ... "