Ethan Slater, who recently started dating singer Ariana Grande, has filed for divorce from Lilly Jay, his wife of four years, with whom he has a son. While Slater is certain to separate from his wife as per TMZ, he “desperately” wants to co-parent their almost one-year-old child.

Slater reportedly filed for divorce in New York, as reported by TMZ, which used court records as support. He didn’t give a reason why he and Lilly Jay split up.

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Who is Lilly Jay?

Lilly Jay is the soon-to-be ex-wife of Ethan Slater, Ariana Grande‘s reported boyfriend.

Despite the fact that Lilly and Ethan got married in their 20s, they had been close friends throughout high school. They’d been dating since 2012, the Drama Desk Award winner revealed in a post on Instagram in November 2022. “My best friend. Four years married, 10 years together,” he wrote.

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Lilly and Ethan were dating for six years before getting married in 2018. After four years of marriage, Lilly and Ethan announced the birth of their son in August by sharing a picture of a “Wicked Cute” onesie on Instagram.

Ethan has kept his relationship with Lilly mostly under wraps, but he wrote her a tweet of congrats when she finished her psychology degree in December 2020. “After nearly 5 years of hard work, hundreds of hours researching and writing over 200 pages worth of paradigm-shifting thought in the field of psychology, my wife finally defended her dissertation. I am so proud of her, and cannot wait to introduce her at parties as kiddo,” he wrote.

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On July 27, Lilly finally spoke out about Ethan and Ariana’s relationship. “[Ariana’s] the story really. Not a girl’s girl. My family is just collateral damage,” Lilly told Page Six.

Speaking of Ariana and her former husband Dalton Gomez, she added, “The story is her and Dalton.” Additionally, Lily told Page Six that her current priority is being “a good mom” to the baby she and Ethan share.