Before their split, the couple had opened up about their relationship in various interviews. Davidson told Esquire in August that he knew he wanted to marry the pop star pretty quickly.
“The day I met her, I was like, ‘Hey, I’ll marry you tomorrow,'” he said about Grande. “She was calling my bluff. I sent her a picture [of engagement rings]. I was like, ‘Do you like any of these?’ She was like, ‘Those are my favorite ones,’ and I was like, ‘Sick.'”
Not long after, Grande appeared on The Tonight Show, where she talked to host Jimmy Fallon about the track called “Pete Davidson,” inspired by her then-fiance, off her new album, Sweetener. The one-minute, 14 second interlude features lines like, “I know that you’re my soulmate and all that.”
“I just made it and I sent it to him and I didn’t know what to call it,” she said, adding that she recorded the song “a week after we started hanging out and stuff.” Grande continued, “So I just called it ‘Pete.’ It was either going to be that or ‘This Is About Pete Davidson.’ I was like, ‘Why not? You know?’ Just be direct.”
The pair first met in 2016 on the set of SNL, when she appeared on the show as a host and musical guest.
“We never exchanged numbers or anything. We weren’t even friends for a long time, but I had the biggest crush in the whole world on him the whole time — like, forever,” she said. “And my friends used to make fun of me for it and all that stuff.”
Though their initial interaction was minimal, Grande went on to say that she predicted she’d end up tying the knot with the SNL star.
“I left his writers room when we were writing skits and stuff for the show and my tour manager was in the hallway. And I’m not a crush-y person. I don’t have crushes on people I don’t know,” she said. “But I left and I jokingly said to my tour manager, ‘I’m marrying him 100 percent.’ I was like, ‘I’m literally marrying him.’ We weren’t even friends. I didn’t even see him at the afterparty.”
The season premiere of SNL even poked fun at the duo’s relationship in a skit and also during “Weekend Update,” where Davidson played himself. “I get it. She’s an international pop star, and I’m that guy from SNL that everyone thinks is in desperate need of more blood,” he said.
When asked about all the attention he’s been getting since his engagement, Davidson said, “I hate it, it’s awful.” He then said that he had been getting death threats. Davidson also poked fun at himself by saying that he wanted a prenup: “God forbid we split up and she takes half my sneakers,” he joked.
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