Pete Davidson has fired back at Ariana Grande after she claimed she only dated him as a “distraction.” The former “Saturday Night Live” star joked about the relationship and his ex’s brutal comments in his Netflix special, “Pete Davidson: Alive from New York.”
- Ariana Grande was pretty harsh about Pete Davidson in an interview with Vogue. While she probably didn’t mean to be, her comments must have stung. “I met Pete, and it was an amazing distraction. It was frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic, and I loved him, and I didn’t know him.” Ouch!
- Davidson wasn’t going to do jokes about Grande at first. However, he eventually felt compelled to address her comments in the stand-up special. “I wasn’t gonna do jokes about this, but then my buddy told me, he’s like, ‘Yo, I’ve recently heard that Arianna said she had no idea who you were. And she just dated you as a distraction,'” he recalled. That was enough to push him into a response.
- She aired the couple’s “dirty laundry” first. While Davidson said he wanted to be a gentleman and keep things private, Grande’s comments in Vogue destroyed that idea. “Can you imagine if I did that. My career will be over tomorrow,” he said. “If I spray painted myself brown and hopped on the cover of Vogue magazine, and just started s**tting on my ex … But you imagine if I did that s**t if I was just like, ‘yeah, just f**king her because I was bored, and then Fortnite came out.’ That would be insane. Again, these are jokes. I don’t I don’t want any smoke. Okay, my biggest fear is I’m gonna get a shot in the back of their head by like a 9-year-old with a ponytail.”
- Fans online couldn’t stop laughing at Davidson’s brutal comeback. “He went straight for the neck with that spray paint joke lmao,” one person commented on the clip. “Jaw dropped once he said ‘spray painted myself brown’ lol I am BAFFLED.” Given that Pete Davidson moved on from Ariana Grande with the likes of Kim Kardashian and Emily Ratajkowski, it seems he’s doing okay.
