In a recent piece, Lilly Jay, the ex-girlfriend of Wicked star Ethan Slater, talked about her high-profile breakup with the actor.
Jay discussed how her public breakup affected her profession as a clinical psychologist in an article published in The Cut on December 19.
She remarked, “I honestly never imagined I would get divorced.” Not right after I gave birth to my first kid, and not in the midst of my husband’s recent celebrity romance.
Co-stars Ariana Grande and Slater, who were previously married to other individuals, reportedly began dating while filming Wicked, according to reports in 2023. Three days after confirming that Grande and her then-husband, Dalton Gomez, had split up, TODAY.com revealed the co-stars’ romance in July 2023.
According to People, Slater and Jay got married in 2018 and had a son in August 2022.Slater and Jay had split up, according to a source who spoke to TODAY.com around the time when Slater and Grande’s relationship was being reported.
Jay’s piece, “How Does My Divorce Make You Feel?” does not expressly mention Grande, Slater, or the project they collaborated on. Grande and Slater’s agents have been contacted by TODAY.com for comment.
After receiving a preeclampsia diagnosis, she said that welcoming her son made her feel like her family was complete, but in retrospect, she admitted that her tale was one of worrying in the wrong way.
I knew all the data as a perinatal psychologist, including how susceptible a marriage is during the postpartum phase, how important community connections are in preventing anxiety and sadness, and how new motherhood affects the entire family, she said. But in order to support my husband’s work, I boldly relocated to a different nation with my 2-month-old child. (Billboard stated, using Instagram stories shared by director Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo, and Grande, that Wicked began shooting in December 2022 and was shot in England.)
Jay says, “Captured by the magic and mundanity of new motherhood, I didn’t understand the growing distance between us,” but she doesn’t go into detail on how and when her marriage ended.
My days with my son are bright, in my opinion. “It’s darker on the days when I can’t avoid the promotion of a movie that’s connected to the most depressing days of my life,” she remarked.
She called her former partner her high school love.
Our relationship has evolved, but our motherhood has not. Regardless of how our parenting time is split, we both fervently love our son all the time, she said.
In her professional life as a psychologist with a focus on helping pregnant women with babies facing diseases, she wrote that she loved being immersed in the details of other people s stories rather than documenting my own narrative for public consumption.
She said, “I can’t say for sure how much what’s out there online has impacted my career.” However, the publicity I didn’t agree to now feels more and more like a challenge and an opportunity, she added.
My entire adult life, I feared that loss of control and postpartum depression would destroy me. When I looked up one day in London, they were both there. “And I’m all right,” she said.
If I can t be invisible anymore, I may as well introduce myself, she added.
Dubbing the essay a message in a bottle sent out to sea to maybe wash up at my patients feet someday, she apologized for no longer being invisible to the people she works with before sharing a few takeaways.
Given your newfound knowledge, I can state with authority both personally and professionally that you are far more powerful than you realize. Some of what you loved most about your partner was actually your own goodness reflected back to you; it s yours to keep and carry forward, she wrote. I d tell you (and myself) to let go of the worries our anxious minds are creative but not particularly good guessers about the future.
While promoting Wicked, which premiered in theaters Nov. 22,Slater and Grande briefly discussed their relationshipin interviews.
Obviously, it was a really super big year and I think there was something that was really difficult about things in your private life being commented on and looked at by the public, Slatertold GQin October.
For her part,Vanity Fair reportedthat Grande disputes specific allegations about her relationship with Slater in an interview.
The most disappointing part was to see so many people believe the worst version of it, Grande said. There couldn t be a less accurate depiction of a human being than the one that the tabloids spread about him
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