Ariana Grande got candid about her relationship with Mac Miller in a new interview
Since Mac Miller’s death in September 2018, Ariana Grande has shared memories of her late ex-boyfriend on social media and paid tribute to him during her Sweetener World Tour. She has even alluded to Miller’s death in her music, such as in the song “Ghostin’.” Understandably, Grande has mostly refrained from talking about Miller and his death, but recently, she got candid about the side of their relationship that the public didn’t see.
Grande appears on the cover of the August issue of Vogue (along with her dog Toulouse), and in the accompanying story, she discusses Miller and his death, as well as the music she wrote after his passing. She also addressed a moment after she and Miller broke up, when one of Miller’s fans blamed her for the rapper’s DUI. At the time, Grande called the accusation “absurd” and noted that “shaming/blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his shit together is a very major problem.” Speaking to Vogue, Grande elaborated on her response and the work that she had put into her relationship.
"People don’t see any of the real stuff that happens, so they are loud about what they think happened," she explained. "They didn’t see the years of work and fighting and trying, or the love and exhaustion. That tweet came from a place of complete defeat, and you have no idea how many times I warned him that that would happen and fought that fight, for how many years of our friendship, of our relationship. You have no idea so you’re not allowed to pull that card, because you don’t fucking know. That’s where that came from."
The pop star described her grief after Miller’s death as “pretty all-encompassing.”
"By no means was what we had perfect, but, like, fuck. He was the best person ever, and he didn’t deserve the demons he had," she said. "I was the glue for such a long time, and I found myself becoming...less and less sticky. The pieces just started to float away."
She also discussed the way that writing Thank U, Next helped her heal after Miller’s death. She told Vogue that she finds “solace” in music and noted that the album represented “the first year of my life where I’m realizing that I can no longer put off spending time with myself, just as me.”
"I've been boo’d up my entire adult life," she said. "I’ve always had someone to say goodnight to. So Thank U, Next was this moment of self-realization. It was this scary moment of 'Wow, you have to face all this stuff now. No more distractions. You have to heal all this shit.'"
With everything that Grande has been through in the past year, we hope that she is taking time to heal.
