Ariana Grande; Hillary Clinton; Kanye West
The pop star and her comedian beau have officially called it quits
H OURS AFTER HER SURPRISE no-show at a cancer fundraising gala on Oct. 13, Ariana Grande has ended her whirlwind engagement to Pete Davidson following a tumultuous few months. A source close to the couple, who confirmed their engagement on June 11 after a few weeks of dating, told TMZ the split was a mutual decision as both the singer, 25, and the Saturday Night Live star, 24, felt the timing wasn’t right. “It was way too much, too soon,” a source tells WHO. “It’s not shocking to anyone.”
The news comes after Grande’s manager, Scooter Braun, told the audience at the inaugural Barbara Berlanti Heroes Gala that Grande, who was due to perform a song from Wicked alongside Kristin Chenoweth, was a no-show due to personal reasons.
“Someone I’m very close to was supposed to come sing for you today, and because of things that she’s going through, she couldn’t be here today,” he said. “And while I was frustrated, being a manager, my wife, being who she always is, said to me, ‘She needs this time.’”
Davidson and Grande met when the pop star guest hosted SNL in 2014, and they started dating shortly after she broke up with late rapper Mac Miller earlier this year. A smitten Davidson popped the question in bed with a $130,000 pear-cut sparkler, confirming the engagement on The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “The day I met her, I was like, ‘Hey, I’ll marry you tomorrow,’” Davidson told the August issue of GQ.
However, the passing of her ex-partner Miller from a reported drug overdose on Sept. 7 took an emotional toll on Grande. She also told British
Vogue in May that she was suffering from posttraumatic stress syndrome from the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at her 2017 concert in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Despite the split, the source told TMZ they wouldn’t rule out a reconciliation, saying that the pair “still have love for each other”. •