Ariana Grande has made a few different public comments about Pete Davidson over the years, and people usually mean one of three things when they ask this.

1. The “distraction” comment

In a 2019 Vogue cover story reflecting on their whirlwind 2018 engagement, Ariana described her relationship with Pete as:

  • “An amazing distraction” from what she was going through at the time.
  • “Frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic,” while also saying she did love him but “didn’t know him” in a deeper, long‑term way.

These quotes circulated heavily online and were widely framed as her calling the relationship a coping mechanism rather than something stable or sustainable.

2. The NSFW “BDE” / size joke

During their relationship, Ariana answered a fan asking how long the song “Pete Davidson” on her album was by joking something like “10 inches… I mean… like a lil over a minute,” which fans took as a sexual reference to Pete.

  • That offhand tweet helped kick off the whole “BDE” (Big Dick Energy) meme era around him.
  • Years later, Pete has said he was embarrassed by how much attention that comment got and how sexualized he felt in the media because of it.

3. Overall tone about him after the breakup

Even with the “distraction” framing, Ariana has not gone on long negative rants about Pete in public:

  • She has mostly kept things brief, focusing on her own healing and describing the relationship as intense, fast, and ultimately unrealistic rather than attacking him personally.
  • Pete, for his part, has joked about her comments in stand‑up, but in more recent interviews has said that when they do cross paths “it’s all love,” and he wishes her well.

TL;DR:
She’s called their romance an “amazing distraction” that was “frivolous and fun” but “unrealistic,” made a viral NSFW joke that helped create the “BDE” narrative around him, and otherwise has mostly framed the relationship as a fast, intense chapter in her life rather than openly trashing him.

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