‘Hurt so much': Pete Davidson shades ex Ariana Grande
During the comedian's appearance on The Breakfast Club this week, he got candid about the attention he received surrounding his dating life in his earlier years on Saturday Night Live, per Page Six.
'I brought a lot of pop culture into the show, like I made it [a] sort of tabloidly, trendy thing unintentionally,' he told the co-hosts Charlamagne tha God, DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious.
'Also, I was embarrassed by it because … no one talked about any work I was doing. They were just like, 'Oh, that's the f**k stick.' And that hurt so much,' Davidson, 31, added.
The King of Staten Island actor recalled how his SNL castmates, friends and relatives noticed how 'sad' and 'embarrassed' he was about the attention.
'No one was outrightly mean by any means,' he remembered.
Charlamagne, 47, then made a joke about Davidson's apparent discomfort, saying, 'You was banging a lot of hot chicks and you had a 10-inch penis.'
Though Davidson said that 'sounds great' on paper, he confessed that the situation was 'embarrassing.'
'It's Hollywood. Everybody f**ks everyone. Why are they focusing on me?' the star asked, adding that he believed the attention was heightened because he is 'not Glen Powell handsome.'
'I'm just like this dude that tells d**k jokes and is a drug addict,' he quipped.
'I don't want to victimise myself in any way because I'm cool, but the sexualisation of me — if that was a girl, people would be like, there would be a march for it … Seriously. You're just talking about my d**k all day.'
When asked when the rumors about Davidson's 'big d**k energy' started, he seemingly brought up his ex Grande.
'I think it was like, the New York Times or something when I started dating someone that I guess they considered out of my league, which I think everyone is out of my league,' he said.
'But you know, they were like, 'This guy must have big d**k energy.' And then someone confirmed it,' Davidson added.
The star admitted he had issues navigating his relationships due to the media's interest in his private life.
'It just got to a point where I was … I got really tired of my whole career just being like my personal life,' he said.
'And living through that is sort of traumatic. Like, not to be lame, but it's traumatic to live in your own crap all the time.'
A rep for Grande did not immediately return our request for comment.
The 7 Rings singer, 32, and Davidson revealed they were in a relationship at the end of May 2018.
After a few weeks of dating, Grande and the actor got engaged.
That June, the pop star responded to a fan who tweeted asking, 'how long is Pete ???,' referring to Grande's 2018 track Pete Davidson.
Grande joked, 'Like 10 inches? … oh f**k … i mean … like a lil over a minute.'
The pair called off their engagement and broke up in October 2018 after just five months together.
Grande is now dating her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater, while Davidson is expecting his first child with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt.
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