Ariana Grande
Pete and Ariana went Instagram official in May 2018 — as we all know, things moved very quickly after that. She had just broken up with rapper Mac Miller and the comedian was splitting from Cazzie David.
By June of that year, Pete and Ariana were not only engaged, but were staples on the red carpet. “I feel like I won a contest,” the comedian gushed to Jimmy Fallon during an episode of The Tonight Show. “It’s f–king lit, Jimmy. It’s so lit.”
Three months later, however, Ariana’s ex-boyfriend Mac died of an accidental drug overdose on September 7, 2018. The Grammy Award winner’s grief put a definite strain on her engagement to Pete, and by October, they officially called it quits.
“I totally got it. ‘Cause we were only together for a few months — she’d even tell you this. I was like, ‘Listen, I get it, do whatever you gotta do, I’ll be here.’ I think I said, ‘I’ll be here until you don’t want me to be here,’” Pete recalled to Charlamagne tha God during a February 2020 interview.
“I pretty much knew it was over after that,” he continued. “That was really horrible. I can’t imagine what that s–t is like. That s–t is just terrible. All I do know is that she really loved the s–t out of him and she wasn’t putting on a show or anything. That was f–ked up.”
Since Ariana and Pete’s split, the “Thank U, Next” singer has opened up about their relationship many times, including in a July 2019 cover story with Vogue. “I met Pete, and it was an amazing distraction, Ariana told the publication. “It was frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic, and I loved him, and I didn’t know him.”
