{"id":641075,"date":"2026-10-01T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/641075\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:10:15","slug":"ariana-grande-defended-by-ex-pete-davidson-amid-body-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/641075\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Defended by Ex Pete Davidson Amid Body Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPete Davidson<\/a> has seen all of the negative chatter about Ariana Grande<\/a>, to whom he was once engaged. Though things didn\u2019t work out between him and the pop star, he isn\u2019t happy with the way she\u2019s been treated.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a cover story interview with Variety<\/a> published Wednesday (Sept. 30), the comedian shared his thoughts on the discourse surrounding Grande, which reached a fever pitch over the summer as commenters increasingly speculated on her appearance and slender figure. When the scrutiny ramped up even more following the release of her \u201cPetal\u201d music video, Grande announced<\/a> in August that she\u2019d be stepping away from the public eye for an undisclosed period of time. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t like it at all,\u201d Davidson told the publication of the vitriol. \u201cIt\u2019s not cool. She\u2019s a really strong person \u2014 I\u2019ve witnessed it \u2014 and I don\u2019t understand it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tGrande and the Saturday Night Live alum started dating and got engaged within a matter of months in 2018, ultimately splitting by the end of October that year. Their breakup \u2014 after which the singer and Davidson traded a few<\/a> barbed comments about each other<\/a> when everything was still fresh \u2014 came about a month after the death of Mac Miller<\/a>, whom the Wicked actress had dated for nearly two years before Davidson.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a dark time for Grande, who had to grieve the difficult loss of her ex while, at the same time, receiving hate from certain Miller fans who blamed her for the rapper\u2019s fatal overdose. A few months prior, she\u2019d clapped back at<\/a> the notion that she was responsible for Miller\u2019s DUI crash <\/a>in May 2018 simply because she\u2019d broken up with him and moved on with Davidson.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, the King of Staten Island star added to Variety of Grande, \u201cShe knows how to handle this stuff though. She\u2019s been around. She\u2019ll be OK, but I think it\u2019s f\u2013ked up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Miller\u2019s death and the breakup from Davidson happening in quick succession, Grande famously hunkered down in the studio and turned to music to process her feelings, re-emerging with her Billboard 200<\/a>-topping album Thank U, Next. The title track from the LP \u2014 in which she name-checks Davidson \u2014 spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, marking her first of many solo No. 1s on the chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bodies Bodies Bodies actor has been open in his stand-up about the experience of being the inspiration for one of pop music\u2019s biggest hit breakup songs, and in the new interview, he quipped that \u201cthere should be a group\u201d for famous ex-boyfriends such as himself and Jake Gyllenhaal, the assumed subject of Taylor Swift\u2019s searing No. 1 hit \u201cAll Too Well (10 Minute Version).\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s something that comes up once in a while,\u201d Davidson added of \u201cThank U, Next.\u201d \u201cBut I think Ariana\u2019s f\u2013kin\u2019 cool and immensely talented and an awesome girl. We\u2019re not texting or whatever, but we\u2019re cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pop star is now in a relationship with Ricky Alvarez, having rekindled things with him earlier this year after previously dating the dancer in 2016. Meanwhile, Davidson is a father now, welcoming daughter Scottie \u2014 whom he shares with ex Elsie Hewitt \u2014 in December 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cScottie is my whole life,\u201d the comedian told the publication. \u201cI was living or dying on this business and what I thought people thought of me \u2026 but as soon as I saw her for the first time, I was like, \u2018Oh my God, none of this f\u2013kin\u2019 matters at all. It\u2019s a job. If I get to do cool stuff, great; if not, cool, I get to be home more with my kid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out Davidson on the cover of Variety below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson has seen all of the negative chatter about Ariana Grande, to whom he was once engaged.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,821,61,60,278,633],"class_list":["post-641075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}