Victoria Pedretti Is Engaged to Ethan DeLorenzo: 'It's No Secret I'm Deeply in Love'

Elle

5 days ago

THE RUNDOWN
Victoria Pedretti made her engagement public in July 2025, and she wasn't shy about it. The You and Haunting of Hill House actress shared a joint Instagram with her fiancé on July 22, photographer and artist Ethan DeLorenzo. She wrote, 'It's no secret I'm deeply in love or that I'm engaged to Ethan. I tell everyone I meet.'
The Instagram included a shot of the couple holding each other and smiling. The pair has kept their relationship very private, so Pedretti's announcement offered a rare look into their dynamic.
DeLorenzo added on his Instagram Story, per The Tab, 'Ooooo, the love we are making together is out of this world. Here's to forever.'
Below, everything to know about DeLorenzo.
DeLorenzo lists himself as a 'father/wild forager/naturalist/director/recording artist/photographer/gardener' on his personal website. His work spans short documentaries, photography, and music. One of his short documentaries, Cider Creek Collective (2025), follows a group of ceramicists and features music played on handmade instruments.
His Instagram also offers glimpses into both his work and personal life, with a strong emphasis on natural environments and community living.
On April 25, 2025, he posted a carousel of Pedretti posing outdoors in a red dress. He captioned it, 'some photo evidence of our wild hearts frolicking around.'
She shared the same photos on her Instagram that day, tagging DeLorenzo.
DeLorenzo also posted Polaroid photos of Pedretti the month before, writing, 'i'd lay on the cliff side during the apocalypse with you any day… expired polaroid film 💜.'
As of 2025, it's unclear where DeLorenzo currently resides, though he previously lived on Vashon Island for several years.
In a 2020 interview on the Our Nature podcast, DeLorenzo shared, 'I am currently on our apple orchard, and it's located in Vashon, Washington. It's a little island you can only get to by ferry. I live in a little eco-village with about six to eight others depending on the time of the year. We have a farm and an orchard. I started a little outdoor mushroom experiment so I grow some mushrooms as well.'
He added, 'The best thing about the Pacific Northwest is that there's so much to forage. I'm always foraging for things as well. I've been up here for four years now.'
He described the island as a place where he found a sense of home: 'It's the first time I've ever felt that very pure and intentional feeling of home,' he said.
During his time in Vashon, he also contributed work to the local Summer Arts Fest, including a photography installation and a music workshop for kids, per the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber.
DeLorenzo grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. After graduating high school, he moved to Brooklyn and began working in recording studios. 'I started out working with this mix engineer in a recording studio, his name is Ryan West,' he told Our Nature. 'At the time, he was working a lot with this producer Just Blaze, so we started out at Jay-Z's studio working with Rihanna, T.I…I remember one of the first projects we did was with Kid Cudi when he was working with Eminem.'
He added, 'How I got that gig, from a shitty town in Pennsylvania, was the internet. I was just a weird little teenager who loved music and would read the liner notes of my albums and just search them and send them messages, and I found myself an opportunity from being really young and eager.'
After working in studios, DeLorenzo joined a band as a drummer with Teyana Taylor called U.G.L.Y. (Underneath Greatness Lies You). 'She was signed to Pharrell at the time and they were starting this band…Long story short, made a bunch of songs, was in that band, got us to move to L.A., and then Teyana got signed by Kanye and kind of went and did her solo thing,' he said. 'Fortunately, now you cannot search it, it's been erased from everything, which I'm grateful for,' he added, referring specifically to the band's music and online presence.
He described the experience as pivotal: 'I saw the world, these people were friends of mine and peers…I loved it for a certain amount, and then I think other things started coming up for me. I was like, what do I really want?'
During his time in the music industry, DeLorenzo formed friendships with artists including Rihanna and Chris Brown. The three shared a close connection, with DeLorenzo sharing that he and his former girlfriend once lived with Brown when he first moved to L.A.
'Me and Rihanna have the same birthday, February 20. We're Pisces,' DeLorenzo said. 'It was both of our birthdays, and they were going to Hawaii and were like, 'Oh, you should come.' So it was kind of just like that, more of a leisure trip. It was really special, that trip was really pivotal. At the time, I was experimenting with psychedelics and not in a party manner, more of a ritual manner. Mushrooms, usually. I think I started tripping like a year before that trip.'
'On that trip, I remember Rihanna giving me mushrooms, and it was the darkest trip I've ever had,' DeLorenzo said. 'I was feeling everything…People can say what they want, but that feeling that day really brought clarity to my ego and what I really wanted from my life and what felt authentic to me.'
He added, 'That led to more clarity on how I moved in my career and then to essentially meeting the mother of my child.'
DeLorenzo spoke to Our Nature about the moment he learned his then-partner, Jenna Malone, was expecting their son, Ode.
'When she told me she was pregnant, I was just so happy,' he said. 'I felt such a purpose and like I was prepared for it.'
The family initially moved to Big Sur, California. After Ode turned one, DeLorenzo, Malone, and their son lived in a van while traveling up the coast looking for community farmland. When the couple eventually separated, DeLorenzo relocated to Vashon Island to be closer to his son. 'Her and I had our ups and downs,' he said. 'We're not meant to be life partners like that living in the same space so we figured that out on that trip and separated.'
'Before anything, ever since my son was born, it was always father first,' he added.
After arriving on Vashon, DeLorenzo found work managing a small community farm. 'I was managing an orchard with raspberries, blueberries, pumpkins, strawberries, tomatoes…Kind of a small community farm, about two acres,' he said. 'And then I ended up transitioning the farm to a co-op farm.'
DeLorenzo has described the lifestyle shift as transformational: 'Learning the process of farming, connecting to the trees, growing crops, connecting to those slower processes has made me such a better person and more patient and has given me tools to be a good father,' he said.
'Fast-forward to present time right now…I love my life,' DeLorenzo said in 2020. 'This part of the world, I love the climate, the seasons alone…It has given me tools to listen and be connected to those processes and share them with my son.'
He concluded, 'Everything that's informed my life and given me this bliss of a life experience was out of my control. So I've gotten really good at listening and trusting that this is where I'm supposed to go, and this is going to work out in some way.'