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Ariana Grande And Pete Davidson Had A Very Weird Relationship

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A pop superstar and a Saturday Night Live cast member got engaged in weeks, adopted a pig, and covered the whole thing in matching tattoos before it fell apart just as fast.

Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson’s 2018 romance moved faster than almost any celebrity pairing in recent memory, from first date to engagement to breakup in roughly five months. It came together on the rebound from two other high-profile relationships and unraveled under the weight of tragedy, tabloid scrutiny, and impulsive decisions made in public. Here’s how the whole thing actually played out.

• Grande and Davidson started dating in May 2018 right after her split from Mac Miller and his breakup with Cazzie David, then got engaged within weeks.
• Davidson told Jimmy Fallon he felt like he’d “won a contest” and gave Grande an estimated $93,000 diamond ring, while the pair moved into a $16 million Manhattan apartment and adopted a pig named Piggy Smallz.
• Mac Miller’s death from an accidental overdose in September 2018 strained the engagement, and Grande and Davidson called it off by mid-October, with Grande releasing “Thank U, Next” the following month.

A Rebound That Turned Into an Engagement

The two started dating in May 2018, just weeks after Grande’s split from Mac Miller ended a two-year relationship and Davidson’s engagement to Cazzie David fell apart. There was little runway between “we’re dating” and “we’re getting married.” By June, they were engaged, and Davidson wasn’t shy about how sudden it felt, joking to Jimmy Fallon that he “won a contest” by landing Grande. The ring he gave her was reportedly worth around $93,000, a detail that circulated almost as fast as the engagement news itself.

The pace didn’t slow down after the proposal. The couple moved into a $16 million Manhattan apartment together and picked up a pet pig they named Piggy Smallz, treating the relationship less like a courtship and more like a life already fully merged. It made for constant tabloid fodder, and readers curious about how other stars have navigated relationship history at warp speed might recognize the pattern from Megan Fox’s own relationship history.

Ink as a Timestamp

Few couples have documented a relationship in permanent ink as quickly as Grande and Davidson did. Within weeks of going public, they’d racked up matching and tribute tattoos, including initials, shared phrases, and a tattoo honoring Davidson’s late firefighter father by referencing his badge number. Every new tattoo became its own news cycle, a physical marker of just how fast the relationship was accelerating.

Infidelity Rumors and Ex Drama

The speed of the romance invited plenty of scrutiny about what happened with their previous partners. Accusations swirled about whether either had been unfaithful before the split from their exes, and Cazzie David didn’t hide her feelings, throwing public shade at the new couple. The backlash extended to social media trolling aimed directly at Davidson, who got hit hard enough that he temporarily wiped his Instagram account entirely.

Davidson joked to Jimmy Fallon that landing Grande felt like he’d “won a contest” — before handing over a roughly $93,000 ring.

Mac Miller’s Death Changes Everything

The tone of the relationship shifted hard after Mac Miller died from an accidental overdose in September 2018. The emotional fallout from his death put real strain on the engagement, and the breezy, headline-a-week version of the relationship didn’t survive it. By mid-October 2018, Grande and Davidson called off the engagement and split for good, with both acknowledging it simply wasn’t the right time for either of them.

Grande didn’t stay quiet about it. In November 2018, she released “Thank U, Next,” a record-breaking single that referenced Davidson directly. As the split became final, both of them started covering up the matching tattoos they’d rushed to get just months earlier — a fittingly literal end to a relationship that had been written on their skin in real time. For a broader look at how Davidson’s public relationships have continued to draw attention, what Kim and Pete think of Kanye’s recent behaviour picks up that thread years later.

By the time “Thank U, Next” hit airwaves, the tattoos were being covered up and the ring was gone, but the timeline stuck: engaged in June, gutted by Mac Miller’s death in September, done by mid-October, turned into a chart-topping single by November. Few relationships in 2018 moved through that many chapters that fast.