While appearing to promote her new Broadway play Appropriate, the actress discussed her eight-year relationship to Taylor,

whom she said has made everything in her life make sense.

Added Paulson, 48: “She just also makes me feel seen, which I think is the most important gift you can give to any person.”

Paulson and Taylor, 80, first went public with their relationship in December 2015. The two stars met at a party in 2005 but didn’t start dating until a decade later after they reconnected over social media.

“I actually had her picture on my refrigerator for 10 years before we were together — which sounds strange,” Paulson told View panelists Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

She went on to explain that the two were at a dinner party alongside a group that included Oscar winner Allison Janney and the late screenwriter Buck Henry when they they spotted a Lamborghini parked outside the restaurant. “We walked out and were like, ‘What?’ and we all jumped on top of the car and took this picture,” Paulson said, explaining that Henry snapped the photograph. “He sent us all copies and it was on my refrigerator in my little apartment in West Hollywood for 10 years before we [dated], so it was weird….”

Asked by Behar if she had a crush on Taylor at the time, Paulson insisted she didn’t. “Maybe something was percolating and it was unbeknownst to me but there she was in my kitchen!,” Paulson said.

“She’s great,” the actress added.