Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson's Relationship: A Timeline
Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson’s engagement—excuse me, reported engagement—is all I can think about right now. The two haven’t confirmed the news directly, nor did their reps respond to our request for comment, but Grande’s recent string of tweets certainly implies something’s going on.
Is that something an engagement? Maybe. Anything goes in 2018—including two celebrities getting engaged after dating for just a few weeks. Apparently, these two are just that into each other. (If you didn’t pick up on that Ariana bop reference, then I’m sorry. “Into You” deserved the world.)
All we really know about Grande and Davidson’s relationship comes from social media and news reports—both of which point to them getting together in early May. From then on, it’s been a sea of emojis, social media comments, backstage dates, and even (maybe) an engagement. Below, a timeline of their whirlwind romance.
March 2016: Grande and Davidson meet on the set of Saturday Night Live. At the time, he was dating Larry David’s daughter Cazzie David. This was the episode where Grande did her spot-on impression of Jennifer Lawrence that was my religion for approximately two weeks.
September 2016 Grande reveals—via Instagram, naturally—that she’s dating rapper Mac Miller.
May 9, 2018: Fast-forward two years later: News breaks that Grande and Miller have split. She confirms the news herself on Instagram Stories: “I can’t wait to know and support you forever and I’m so proud of you,” she wrote.
May 12: Grande attends a Saturday Night Live after-party and is photographed holding what’s seems to be Davidson’s phone case. That, or she got the same case for her own phone. Both scenarios are suspect.
May 16: A few days later, Davidson reveals that he and David split up. “Very talented girl, she’ll be great and she’ll be fine,” he said on Complex’s show Open Late With Peter Rosenberg
May 17: Davidson posts a photo to Instagram with a cloud tattoo on his middle finger. The aforementioned phone case Grande was seen holding days before is cloud-shaped. Also, on May 14, Grande posted a cloud emoji caption to Instagram. Coincidence? I think not.
May 21: Us Weekly reports that Grande and Davidson are “casually dating.” This came off the heels of the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, where, according to People‘s sources, the two were acting “lovey-dovey.” “After Ariana’s performance, they were backstage and he had his arm around her,” one onlooker told the magazine. “They seemed very lovey-dovey. He was hanging out with her and her friends with his arm around her. She seemed quite smitten.”
May 24: Davidson and Grande ramp up their Instagram flirtation. Emojis, inside jokes, and lots of “HAHAHAHAs” are involved.
May 25: Davidson hits back at trolls on the Internet who said that Grande shouldn’t date him because he has borderline personality disorder (BPD). “Just because someone has a mental illness does not mean they can’t be happy and in a relationship. It also doesn’t mean that person makes the relationship toxic,” he wrote on his Notes app, which he posted to Instagram Story. “I just think it’s fucked up to stigmatize people as crazy and say that they are unable to do stuff that anyone can do. It’s not their fault and it’s the wrong way for people to look at things.”
PHOTO: INSTAGRAM
PHOTO: INSTAGRAM
May 30: Several fans took this photo Davidson posted of himself and Grande in Hogwarts attire as confirmation of their relationship. “The chamber of secrets has been opened,” he wrote.
June 3: Davidson debuts two new tattoos that appear to be tributes to Grande. The first is of her iconic Dangerous Woman bunny ears. The second is a silo of the initials “AG.” Subtle.
June 4: Davidson goes to support Grande at Wango Tango. He raves about her performance on Instagram Story.
June 9: The two now start posting photos of each other more frequently. Davidson uploaded a snap of them almost kissing at Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s Kids See Ghosts album listening party. In one pic, Grande jokes that her Instagram page is now a “Pete Davidson update” account.
June 11: Reports surface that Grande and Davidson are engaged. Grande appears to confirm via a series of cryptic tweets, likes, and replies. Fans lose their minds.
And that, my friends, is the story of 2018’s most extra celebrity relationship.
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