‘That Was Actually Tough’: Ethan Slater Talks Relationship Ariana Grande In Entrance Of The World – The Boston Courier

Ethan Slater says falling in love with Ariana Grande because the world watched was “really hard.”

The couple began relationship whereas filming the upcoming adaptation of Broadway’s “Wicked” and, whereas Slater recollects that point as “beautiful,” he’s additionally decrying the flurry of detrimental chatter about them as “really difficult.”

“Obviously, it was a really super big year,” the Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor instructed GQ in an interview revealed Wednesday. “And I think there was something that was really difficult about things in your private life being commented on and looked at by the public.”

“There were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening, so it’s really hard to see people who don’t know anything about what’s happening commenting on it and speculating, and then getting things wrong about the people you love,” he continued.

Final summer season, Grande known as it quits along with her ex-husband, Dalton Gomez, after two years of marriage, and Slater separated from his highschool sweetheart, Lilly Jay, 5 years after their November 2018 nuptials. The timing fueled rumors that the 2 had left their spouses for one another.

Grande, in an interview with Self-importance Honest this month, “dispute[d] specific allegations” with out stepping into particulars, however known as detrimental gossip about her new associate flat-out “bullshit.”

“The most disappointing part was to see so many people believe the worst version of it,” she mentioned.

“There couldn’t be a less accurate depiction of a human being than the one that the tabloids spread about him,” the singer added. “No one on this earth tries harder or spreads themselves thinner to be there for the people that he loves and cares about.”

Grande has definitely had high-profile relationships earlier than, however whereas sources near her romance with Slater instructed People who they solely began relationship after he was separated, Jay herself — who shares a younger little one with him — advised in any other case to Web page Six final July.

“Not a girl’s girl,” she mentioned of Grande. “My family is just collateral damage.”

Slater, who stars because the Munchkin who falls in love with Grande’s Glinda the Good Witch within the upcoming “Wicked” movie, definitely appears content material.

“I’m just really, really proud of Ari and the work she’s done on this,” he instructed GQ. “She’s poured herself into it.”