Grande: Davidson was ‘amazing distraction’
Over a turbulent 12 months, Ariana Grande survived a suicide bombing following her concert in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people and the breakup of her two-year relationship with rapper Mac Miller. In the spring of 2018, friends convinced the 26-year-old pop star to relocate from Los Angeles to New York City for a summer of “fun.”
But things only got more turbulent. In the “haze” of her breakup from Miller, Grande met 24-year-old “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, and the two embarked on a whirlwind romance and engagement that was ultimately misguided, the singer admitted in a new interview with Vogue.
“My friends were like, ‘Come! We’re gonna have a fun summer,’ ” Grande told Vogue. “And then I met Pete, and it was an amazing distraction. It was frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic, and I loved him, and I didn’t know him.”
The romance didn’t last, especially after Miller died of an accidental drug overdose in September 2018. Grande and Davidson broke up the following month.
Grande acknowledged to Vogue that she had not sufficiently processed the end of her relationship with Miller when she began dating Davidson. She said Miller’s sudden death left her with an “all-consuming” grief.
“He was the best person ever, and he didn’t deserve the demons he had,” she said. “I was the glue for such a long time, and I found myself becoming ... less and less sticky. The pieces just started to float away.”
She concluded: “I have to be the luckiest girl in the world, and the unluckiest, for sure.”