{"id":692768,"date":"2026-06-09T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:33:08","slug":"ariana-grande-secretly-broke-up-with-ethan-slater-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692768\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Secretly Broke Up With Ethan Slater Months Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ariana Grande<\/a> just started her \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d tour, and she\u2019s apparently doing it as a single woman.<\/p>\n

Both TMZ<\/a> and People<\/a> are reporting that the singer of \u201cThank U, Next\u201d ended her three-year relationship with \u201cWicked\u201d co-star Ethan Slater<\/a> several months ago.<\/p>\n

TMZ noted Slater did not attend the opening show of Grande\u2019s tour Saturday night in Oakland, but a source close to the couple told People there is no bad blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amicable, they gave lots of time and careful consideration and decided to go their separate ways,\u201d the source told People. \u201cThey are still friends and very supportive of one another. They have been quietly broken up for several months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The source also stressed that the 32-year-old singer is \u201cdoing great\u201d under the circumstances.<\/p>\n

The couple first announced they were an item back in July 2023<\/a>, right after Grande announced she was divorcing her husband<\/a> of two years, real estate broker Dalton Gomez.<\/p>\n

Their divorce was finalized<\/a> in March 2024.<\/p>\n

Slater was married to therapist Lilly Jay at the time he met Grande. He shares a son with her. Their divorce was settled in September 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He admitted to GQ a month later that falling in love with Grande<\/a> in front of the world was \u201creally hard,\u201d and admitted it was \u201creally difficult\u201d to have \u201cthings in your private life being commented on and looked at by the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an essay for \u201cThe Cut\u201d<\/a> published in December 2024, Jay said she experienced \u201ca season of shock and mourning\u201d<\/a> as a result of the breakup, but that it came in waves.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for me, days with my son are sunny. Days when I can\u2019t escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Grande admitted to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in February 2025 that the gossip surrounding her relationship with Slater will \u201cnever be unpainful,\u201d<\/a> but said she walks \u201cwith the awareness that I\u2019m an artist and this is a path that I\u2019ve chosen, and so I just try to protect myself so that I never start to resent the art.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande just started her \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d tour, and she\u2019s apparently doing it as a single woman. Both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12875,300440,88,31379],"class_list":["post-692768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ariana-grande","tag-celebrity-splits","tag-entertainment","tag-ethan-slater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}