There’s been speculation that Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande’s engagement is a publicity stunt. They’ve so open on social media and the timeline is crazy as they’re engaged just a month after going public. Plus Ariana has been wearing a giant engagement ring since at least June 2, which frankly looks out of Pete’s price range. (Pete is on SNL and his net worth is listed at around $500k. He may make around that per year though, which would make the value of the ring two months of his salary. Of course it’s possible that Ariana helped with the purchase and there’s no shame in that, but that seems like a scenario for an established couple.)
According to a jeweler who spoke to E! News, Pete put in an order for a ring in late May. Remember that we first heard about this couple on May 22nd, right after they both announced breakups with partners they’d been with for around two years. It’s possible they were seeing each other for a while prior to that, but if so they were probably cheating. Given all we’ve seen from them, doesn’t it follow that they went public immediately and have only been together a handful of weeks?
Regardless the jeweler told E! on the record that Pete called at the end of May and was specific about the type of ring he wanted, but didn’t say who it was for.
E! News spoke with Greg Yuna, the jeweler who designed the pop star’s diamond bauble, who says Davidson came to him about a month ago with a request for the ring.
As Yuna remembers it, “Pete called me at the end of May and said ‘Look, I’m getting a ring. This is what I want.’ And I told him that I had the right ring for him. He didn’t tell me who it was for but told me to keep it a secret. He didn’t tell me anything about it.”
It took two weeks to make the pear-shaped ring, which clocks in at just over 3-carats. The Saturday Night Live star paid a whopping $93,000 for it, Yuna reveals.
Note to E! News, the end of May is not “a month ago,” it’s two weeks ago. Pete has been open about his diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and his struggle with addiction. Many of you have mentioned that impulsivity is one of the symptoms of BPD. I don’t want to get into all that and I do give credit to Pete for talking about it. It’s got to be hard to be vulnerable like that with the press.
Pete has shown impulsive behavior in getting engaged so soon and in getting two tattoos for Ariana. He got her initials on his thumb and a bunny mask behind his ear. It turns out that Ariana isn’t the first girlfriend for whom he’s gotten tattoos. He had another one for his girlfriend before Ariana, Cazzie David, Larry David’s daughter. He actually had Cazzie’s face on his arm, but he got that covered up, according to US, which doesn’t site a source. I looked through Instagram and didn’t see any evidence of that. Maybe US is going on an IG story or the shirtless video which Pete posted, below. Oh and another one of Pete’s ex girlfriend, Carly Aquilino of Girl Code, posted a response to his engagement. Carly dated Pete before he was with Cazzie. She posted a text message where a friend of hers wrote “I can’t.” I think that sums up a lot of people’s reactions to these two.
Here’s a video Ariana posted where Pete talks about his lack of deep knowledge about the Harry Potter franchise. (This has an F bomb and is not safe around kids or at work probably.) He’s funny, we know that about him.
This is Pete with Cazzie David in August, 2016. (I didn’t go looking for this photo, there aren’t that many pictures of him.)
Ariana wearing the ring on June 2.
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I do not know what is worse: his nonsensical word salad about Harry Potter, or her ridiculous laugh.
His awful accent does it for me. The worst!
intense love bombing is never a red flag or anything….
Exactly, someone in their lives needs to tell them to hit the brakes.
When this implodes it will be very messy indeed.
I think this relationship is being fueled by hormones, insta-attention and a bonding over his dad dying in 9/11 and her experience of the Manchester bombing.
I also think it’s being fueled by revenge/ wanting to send a message to at least one, if not both, of the exes. The time that he had this ring made, plus the talk of how he used to gush over Cazzie like this (and had been with her for 2 years) makes me think Ariana was his back-up plan if he couldn’t get Cazzie to say yes. He was desperate to get married to one of them, one way or another.
Never goes with mental illness either.
My husband and I knew we were going to get married after about a month of dating, but we were in our 30s and had figured out what we wanted from life.
This…is not that. We didn’t have mental health issues, substance abuse struggles, and fame bubbles.
Right?
My grandparents married when she was 17 and literally death did part their SEVENTY-ONE YEARS of marriage. I am NOT using this *one* example as an argument for underaged love/marriage.
Fact-of-the-matter: there are red flags, nay, RED BANNERS all over this, including both being FRESH out of long relationships, her propensity to “overlap”/date within degrees of the last bf, as well as all the things you stated. A cautious congrats, at best.
True story. I knew on the third date with my husband (less than 2 weeks of dating) I wanted to marry him, and we did move fast….BUT, I had spent a year “dating myself” after some brutal relationships, got stable, lots of therapy and I was 27. I think even though we knew we loved each other and this was “it”, we waited about a year to buy a house, two years to get engaged and were married a year after that. I think it’s absolutely possible for people to know love in various time frames, but to know SOMEONE is different…but then again, I’m coming at this as someone who would have a lot to lose in a divorce, my husband’s life and mine are very much intertwined, especially financially. Perhaps for people who have different financial limitations weddings, homes, independence is a little more attainable (as long as you get that prenup!).
Run, girl! RUN!!! Life with a Borderline will destroy everything you’ve worked for. And I do mean everything.
As someone raised by a mother with BPD who has some similar learned behavior patterns myself, this is hurtful and not necessarily true. With therapy and work, people with BPD and people who are BPD adjacent can go on to live productive and loving lives. I know this man struggles with substance abuse and others issues as well, so I agree that this is unhealthy. Just please don’t lump us all together.
What he is doing, the quick engagement, the rushed relationship is symptom of BPD. Can he lead a happy life and be a good man, absolutely but anyone marrying someone with BPD should learn about the diseases and the moods that can come with it.
yeah we should all just die alone then. thanks very much.
Not true, BPD is controllable.
He seems like a person who doesn’t make great life decisions.
It’s their life, their decision. I wish them well
I would like to know what her ring looks like though!
This is going to end well. Said no one ever.
I can’t tell if this is a PR stunt or not. At least with Hiddleswift we could all tell it was fake. This seems real because idk who gets a tattoo for a PR stunt and pays for a 100k ring, but idk all the attention they are trying to get with the relationship makes me think it’s all for publicity.
How much do snl cast members get paid? Also Cazzie David is stunning and hilarious, she deserves better than him.
Cazzie dodged a bullet with this guy.
I thought the same thing!!!! I’m really shocked they mentioned the 500k…I thought the bigger money was when they branched out into film and other projects. I know he tours as part of his comedy, but 500k is a pretty shocking number.
Yeah I hope she’s not fazed by all of this. The girl dodged a bullet!
Just stalked Cazzie’s Instagram. She posted a lot of pictures with him, the most recent one being May 3rd!
and Ariana was last seen with Mac at the Oscars in March and before that at Coachella in April, so either they both move on super fast or there was definitely some overlap
It could be a little bit of both.
He’s so funny to me, and we know ladies love the funny guy! Laughing is the best! He seems to love hard and fast…and I bet the, err, cuddles are amazing. Ha! This will blow up. They literally don’t know each other. I’m sorry but how well can you possibly know someone you have been dating for six weeks?! Who knows maybe they have been friends for a while? The fall out will be fast and hard, also. Ugh look at me being such a negative Nancy! I really hope for the best.
That being said, Larry David’s daughter, Cazzie, looks exactly like her dad but a hot female. Ha! She’s beautiful and yet has the exact same face as her dad.
I don’t give a knut about them or their relationship, just tell me where they found a Hedwig backpack?!?!
If they weren’t getting hitched I would actually ship this couple. But I suppose you’re not a true pop goddess if you don’t make terrible decisions about men (e.g., Britney, Madonna, Janet, Taylor…)
… Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Mariah, JLo.. it must be engrained in them from early on to pick the worst type of partners.
He was gushing over Cazzie David too… until he wasn’t. I remember seeing an interview with him when he was dating Cazzie and he was really loved up, properly giddy, and then seeing another interview when they broke up and he was cold and distant. He seems like he falls hard and fast in love and out of love too. Good luck to them, though. Maybe this is the one where it sticks for them both.
Yes he used to gush hard for cazzie. She seems like a sensible person too and I always felt like she was a good influence on him. He even said in a interview he couldn’t believe she didnt leave after all his struggles and bpd diagnosis. This with ariana just seems like a mess.
He had several tattoos for cazzie not just the picture of her face that was on his arm. I imagine he’ll cover that one up if he hasn’t already. He had her name tattooed on his ring finger and that one for sure is covered up bc of a pic I saw he posted on his gram.
I keep reading people who have experience with Borderline Personality Disorder saying that impulsivity is par for the course. I’m side eyeing Ariana Grande, though. Pete Davidson has a mental disorder that he clearly needs to work on… but wtf is her deal? She doesn’t know better than to get engaged to a guy that she’s only been with for 5 minutes, who has an unchecked mental health issue, and who decided to end his sobriety because he thought that a diagnosis meant he was good to go back to partying? And this all comes fresh off her “feminist” statement in response to being blamed for Mac Miller’s DUI, about how women shouldn’t be responsible for messy men… yet here she is jumping into another relationship with yet another MESSY man. She makes bad decisions.
It’s always weird to me when women get involved with men who are openly mentally unwell and these men exhibit behavior that SHOULD be worrisome and these women are somehow enchanted and just go with it. Please understand that I don’t mean to say no one should be with anyone who deals with any mental health issues… I’m just saying I don’t think a person has good intentions when someone who is dealing with mental health issues acts erratically and they enable that. To me, that’s not showing concern or genuine care. If my boyfriend with BPD wanted to get two tattoos in my honor and immediately propose, I would say “I love you, but let’s chill”
I once heard a friend of a friend situation, of a guy proposing to his girlfriend of three years. She loved him but didn’t think they were ready as they were in their early twenties and he was dealing with bipolar. So she went on a some soul searching travel to grow-up, and he went on a manic heartbroken spree. He hooked-up pretty quickly with another heartbroken girl, gave her the engagement ring intended for the other. It was a train crash that ended soon after with both disappearing for a while (rehab). This does not remind me of that at all…
I wonder what their friends think about this, but then again they both seem like the type to cut off people for actually giving them common sense advice. Calling it now the stories about their breakup are going to be sooooooo mentally exhausting 😪
I don’t care that this is fast or that they’re young. I care that he has BPD and severe addiction issues, they both just broke off long term relationships and that he isn’t acting like a stable human being. He was very over the top, gushy about his very recent ex too. AG has publicly said she’s wasn’t her ex’s babysitter and his substance abuse issues are his own problem and she’s now instantly engaged to someone she’s just met, who also has addiction and mental health issues? No she’s not responsible for babysitting anyone, but if you choose a partner knowing they struggle with these things, you can’t just stick your head in the sand. They both seem really immature as well. I hope it is a publicity stunt because I don’t see it ending well if they go through with it.
So overlap or did he buy a ring for his ex and not really tell people about it and couldn’t return it?
People need to stop giving this positive attention. I’ve seen comments on other sites with people saying goals and how cute it is but there are sooooo many red flags here. If Ariana or Pete were one of my friends, I’d be trying to ask wtf they’re doing. The only people I know that have moved this quickly in a relationship ended up in an abusive situation 😞
Yeah, I reckon he bought the ring for Cazzie.
I haven’t watched SNL in like, um, over 10 years so I had no idea who this guy was & I never heard an actual Ariana song, only really know of her through gossip sites. All this to say I only know of either of them bc of social media & this apparent rushed relationship turned engagement. But in one story I read Ariana blasted a troll accusing her of causing her ex’s relapse but didn’t she say something about how hard it is to be w someone who has an addiction, & it isn’t her responsibility to keep him sober (I’m paraphrasing). But he’s also an addict as well? Eh. Idk. Anyway, yeah, Mazal tov?
Awww at Reborn. I’m obsessed with this album.
I’d like to see a close-up of that ring.
Hm, this does smell of a publicity stunt, especially if he ordered the ring right away. I guess there’s always the possibility that they dated under the radar for a while, but they don’t seem like the type.
I get that most humans have a desire to bond with someone, feel loved desired and wanted. I also understand that most people simply can not be alone. But at what cost? Look at this man’s face, he is clearly damaged and if you dont see it, look deeply.
Hold on a second here!
All I want to know is…
…since when did pear shaped diamonds not = a dated Dynasty-level POS?
Was I out sick when someone sent out the memo or something?
The tattoo artist shared a side by side of Pete’s arm before and after the cover up work on his instagram. Sorry I don’t know how to link but it’s Jonmesatattoos