Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have reportedly been on the rocks for months, and now the truth behind their tumultuous relationship has been exposed.
The truth behind Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater’s tumultuous relationship has been revealed amid months of rumours that the pair have been on the rocks.
The couple was plagued by break-up rumours while promoting Wicked: For Good, with insiders claiming the pair were set to call it quits once and for all.
Although the break-up never materialised, a source close to the pair has revealed that things were very close to splitting.
“Ariana and Ethan hit a rough patch towards the end of last year,” an insider told the Daily Mail. “They never broke up, but it was questionable at a point if they were going to continue moving forward.”
“They’ve really spent time working on their relationship and are in a much better place. It’s been hard for them with the way their relationship began and they’ve had a lot to work through, but they seem to really, truly love each other.”
“That’s a huge reason why Ethan was at a lot of Ariana’s Saturday Night Live duties. They also spent the holidays together with her family. Things are strong between them again now.”
They were first linked in July 2023, the same month Slater filed for divorce from wife Lilly Jay, with whom he shares a now-3-year-old son.
Jay subsequently blasted Grande, insisting to Page Six that the former Nickelodeon star was “not a girl’s girl.”
Grande, for her part, ended her marriage to real estate broker Dalton Gomez later that same year.
In a November 2024 Entertainment Tonight interview, the singer praised her new partner as “adorable” and “amazing.”
Slater, for his part, referred to their relationship as “a beautiful thing” in a chat with GQ the previous month.
As for Jay, she gave rare insight into her and Slater’s co-parenting dynamic in a December 2024 essay published in the Cut.
“While our partnership has changed, our parenthood has not,” she wrote at the time. “Both of us fiercely love our son 100 per cent of the time, regardless of how our parenting time is divided.”
The therapist labelled days with the little one “sunny,” admitting, “Days when I can’t escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker.”
