Ariana Grande tackled the theory that she and Cynthia Erivo are married

While Ariana Grande’s relationship with Ethan Slater came with his share of control, the Wicked The actress revealed that the SpongeBob Squarepants The actor is not the only co-star to which she was romantically linked by fans. In a new Hollywood Reporter Cover Story published on February 11, the multi-hyphenate opened the way in which its ultra-framed relationship with Cynthia Erivo generated the Internet theories that the pair was released not only, but they also secretly trained the theories knotted so omnipresent as They are “I even generated their own fan of fan of fan Elphaba-Glinda.

Grande revealed that she was well aware of the speculation on the internet around her and the friendship of Erivo, saying frankly about the publication: “People think that we are secretly married.” The duo – which was inseparable during their Wicked The press circuit and the season of awards so far – have even created their own “Holding Space”, thanks to the now viral moment when Grande tightened Erivo’s long nail in solidarity during an interview.

The singer of the “7 rings” shed light on some of the “gelphia stuff” – fan fiction and art the expedition of her characters and characters from Erivo Elphaba and Glinda in a romantic relationship – she had been seen online. “I would like to be able to invite certain things,” she joked. “I mean, Wow, I had a feeling, but I didn’t know it would be on this scale or to this graph.”

On a more serious note, Grande has also opened “painful” control around his relationships, especially rumors about his romance with Slater. After Grande separated from his ex-husband Dalton Gomez and Slater separated from his Lilly Jay then-wife, the singer and Slater of “We Can’t Be Friends” were romantically linked in July 2023. They became official Instagram in November 2024, and were more recently, spotted together at Critics Choice Awards.

“It will never be opposite,” said big The Hollywood Reporter about to face a public examination. “But also, I walk with the conscience that I am an artist and it is a path that I chose, and therefore I just try to protect myself so that I never start to feel art.”