Ariana Grande makes rare admission about Ethan Slater relationship during interview

Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater’s controversial relationship has been private at best, but now the singer has made a rare comment on it.

The stars, who first met on the set of Wicked in 2022, have been embroiled in a little bit of drama since their romance began.

When did Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater start dating?

At the time when they were rumoured to have started dating, Grande was still married to husband Dalton Gomez, while Slater was also married to his wife and mother of his baby, Lily Slater.

So, when it emerged that the pair had starting seeing one another in July 2023, a lot of people were confused by the timeline as they were currently working together on the Wizard of Oz spin off live adaption musical.

Through a lot of flack, the pair seem to have come out of it stronger, and have kept their relationship rather private.

However, Grande recently made a small comment about her relationship, which goes to show how the pair are doing together.

'The perfect couple'

The Wicked actress was talking on the Smartless podcast when co-host Sean Hayes described the two as 'the perfect couple'.

To this, Grande thanked him during the February 3 episode and said: “He’s amazing and he loves you.”

Despite the pair being notoriously private, there have been little moments of public affection between the pair.

When Grande landed her Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress last month, the SpongeBob Musical actor shared a photo of his girlfriend in an Instagram Stories post, writing: “Oscar. Nominated.”

The start of Grande and Slater's public relationship

The couple made their start together in the public by going to Disney World in October 2023, with a source telling E! News that 'they went with a big group of friends including her mom and brother and are really happy and really good for each other'.

As for their comments about each other, Grande made a rare Vanity Fair interview where she addressed her romance with Slater publicly for the first time in September 2024, after comments about their timeline overlapping with their respective marriages began to circulate online.

"It definitely doesn’t get any easier, seeing some of the negativity that was birthed by disreputable tabloids," she told the publication. "Of course, I went through a lot of life changes during the filming of this movie. A lot of people that were working on it did."

She then defended her boyfriend, explaining that the 'tabloid' press were wrong about him.

"There couldn’t be a less accurate depiction of a human being than the one that the tabloids spread about him,” Grande said. "No one on this earth tries harder or spreads themselves thinner to be there for the people that he loves and cares about. There is no one on this earth with a better heart, and that is something that no bulls**t tabloid can rewrite in real life."