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Wicked actor Ethan Slater has recently spoken out for the first time about his relationship with singer Ariana Grande, following over a year of silence.
Ariana Grande first met Ethan Slater on the set of the Wicked film adaptation. In Wicked, Slater plays a Munchkin named Boq who falls in love with Grande’s character Glinda (the Good Witch), in the adaptation of the Broadway Musical. Life imitated art, and the pair quickly became one of the most controversial couples in celebrity romance.
The Ariana Grande And Ethan Slater Controversy
Production on Wicked started around December 2022 and was paused in July 2023 during the SAG-AFTRA strike. That month, Slater, 32, filed for divorce from his then-wife musician Lily Jay, with whom he shares a young son.
Grande, 30, then filed for divorce from husband Dalton Gomez in September – but rumours of a split had been rife since July. Around the same time, Daily Mail reported that she and Slater were living together in New York. While TMZ, the publication that first broke news of the relationship, reported that the couple didn’t start dating until they had separated from their respective spouses, public reaction was brutal.
Page Six reported that the pair had “flaunted” their affair amongst their inner circle for months. Another source told Daily Mail the co-stars had been “sloppy” on set during the filming of Wicked. The sources added that the pair had been seen kissing in public on multiple occasions while Slater was still married. Brutally, Slater’s wife labelled Grande “not a girl’s girl” in an interview with Page Six, saying that her family had been “collateral damage” during Grande’s breakup with Dalton Gomez.
Ethan Slater Breaks His Silence
Understandably, Slater and Grnade kept things relatively private over the last year. But with the Wicked promotional tour underway, Slater has opened up about their relationship in an interview with GQ and addressed the public fallout.
“There were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening,” Slater said. It’s really hard to see people who don’t know anything about what’s happening commenting on it, speculating, and then getting things wrong about the people you love.”
“But, of course, it was an amazing year and a really beautiful thing, and I’m just really excited,” he added.
What Ariana Grande Has Said About The Backlash
Grande has also recently addressed the fallout from the relationship in an interview with Vanity Fair. “The most disappointing part was to see so many people believe the worst version of it,” she said. “There couldn’t be a less accurate depiction of a human being than the one that the tabloids spread about him,” she said.
“No one on this earth tries harder or spreads themselves thinner to be there for the people that he loves and cares about,” she continued. “There is no one on this earth with a better heart, and that is something that no bullsh*t tabloid can rewrite in real life.”
Whatever controversy they’ve had to overcome the pair currently seem very much in love.
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