Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande separate: what happens to the ring?

The biggest love story of our time 2018 is over, reports TMZ. Pop singer Ariana Grande and Saturday Night Live Pete Davidson, a cast member, canceled his engagement over the weekend, leaving a large number of people wondering who would have custody of their pet pig, what they would do about tattoos Correspondents and, more urgently, what would happen to the $ 93,000 pear-shaped diamond ring purchased by Davidson for Grande.

Twitter users have been specifically concerned about whether Davidson would be able to recover the ringtone because its cost is very high. They did not have to stay long in limbo: TMZ announced in the early hours of the morning that Grande had already returned to him. But, obviously, this situation was much more than a diamond ring.

Who?

Famous people get together and separate all the time. It is important to know that this is not a celebrity story. The relationship between Grande and Davidson seduced the audience with its speed, intensity and incredibly public character. It was also surprising, since Grande is much more famous than Davidson.

They met in late May, shortly after breaking up with their respective partners – rapper Mac Miller and Cazzie David, respectively Larry David's daughter – and fanned the flames of public interest by flirting with Instagram's comments. . They had many tattoos for each other. After about a month of dating, they were engaged.

The usual rites of the court were proceeding at a blazing speed, magnified by the visibility and collective wealth of Grande and Davidson. They adopted a pig and called it Piggy Smalls. They moved in together in a $ 16 million apartment in New York. Great titled penultimate song from her album Sweetener "Pete Davidson" – not something that most people do in a relationship, but noticeable.

Everything seemed so imprudent! So early! But also … so much fun, a show ran on social media, where anyone with an Instagram account could follow their statements of love. Davidson confirmed the engagement with Jimmy Fallon on Tonight's showsaying, "It's screwed, Jimmy." At the time, it was sort of.

In September, Mac Miller, formerly of Grande, died at 26 years old. Grande, who expressed her sorrow in an Instagram note later in the month, has since canceled her appearances at a charity gala and in the first season of SNL, who replaced her with Kanye West.

When Davidson and Grande broke up this weekend, it may not have been a huge surprise, but Twitter has nevertheless moved up a gear. Of course yes: the fans were here for romance and they are here for the breakup. But beyond the emotional difficulties, the question that people really wanted to know was: who can keep this ring ridiculously expensive?

So who can keep this ring ridiculously expensive?

On Monday, famous sites have already announced that Grande was planning to return the ring to Davidson. According to TMZ, that's what she did. (But Piggy Smalls stays in Grande's custody.) That seems like a reasonable thing to do, which the New York courts would accept, because the state considers engagement rings as contracts and not gifts.

But it is telling that we are so obsessed with the question. For most of us, the $ 93,000 ring, made by Manhattan-based jeweler Greg Yuna, appears to be a significant financial investment – an exorbitant purchase that echoes the global nature of the initial relationship between Grande and Davidson. The fate of this ring is only one piece more of this incredible romance. (Yuna's company did not respond to the request for comment on its acceptance of the returns on the engagement rings.)

However, something else is happening. On Twitter, many people made fun of Davidson's financial situation, saying he would like to recover the ringtone so he can pay his bills again.

Let's be clear: None of us know what's going on in Davidson's finances. He probably earns a good salary SNLbut that's about all you can say! It seems that these comments have less to do with Davidson's income than with Davidson's income over that of Grande's.

Grande is a big hit – her albums, like her hair, are certified platinum – and she certainly does more than Davidson. Disparity in their income reverses society's standard that heterosexual men should be the breadwinner. To suggest that Davidson is broke still exceeds these stereotypes: if a man does not earn as much as his partner, he must be a complete failure. He must be financially dependent.

There was a real imbalance of power in Davidson-Great relations, and that was one of the reasons people had greedily followed her. (The desire to understand what each party brought to the table is also related to the appearance of the phrase "Big Dick Energy.") Great was a world-famous pop star; Davidson was a sketch comedian who had not yet entered the mainstream of Hollywood in the way SNL alums like Will Ferrell or Amy Poehler have. In a way, Grande was Davidson's big break and, on the night talk show circuit, he was not afraid of differences in career status.

"We have a pig. Yo, I can just say, this girl, she was like, "I want a pig!" And then an hour later, it was just The,"Davidson said on Late at night with seth meyer in September. "Do you know what I mean? I always try to fill up Propecia … This girl had a pig in an hour."

And in an interview published by GQ in August, Davidson expressed some hesitation to call his apartment as his:

Davidson and Grande recently moved into an apartment in Manhattan that would have cost $ 16 million. She bought the house, said Davidson, and kept the fridge. "She's really nice. She says, "This is our house" and me, "You're very nice to say that, thank you for letting me stay here," he said, "she says," we're going to get married! " says "I know, thanks for letting me stay here."

On Monday, someone launched a GoFundMe to give Davidson money for housing, although the page was removed that day.

Of course, when people express a false concern about Davidson's finances, they may also assume that since Grande and Davidson rushed into a relationship, one or both of them could also make reckless financial decisions that they could not finance. Spectators may associate Davidson's mental health problems, for which he was open, with an inability to manage money.

The fact is, we do not really know what's going on. Only this: the love is dead.