Pete Davidson is opening up about his romance with Ariana Grande. The Saturday Night Live star was a guest on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show on Monday, where he was asked about his relationship with fiancée Ariana Grande. During his talk with host Howard Stern, Davidson addressed his split with Cazzie David and how he started his romance with Grande. "Timing, I feel like, is everything and we both were in a similar situation at the same time," Davidson said, acknowledging his breakup from David and Grande's split with Mac Miller. "You're both broken up...with people. You had dated Larry David's daughter for two years, a serious relationship," Stern said. "You broke up for whatever reason. She was with that guy Mac Miller and you both break up." Davidson said the splits happened "pretty much at the same time."<doc-sep>According to Pete, the couple's first date was on the night of the Met Gala, which was on May 7th. After the event, Pete said he went over to Ariana's apartment where they played games with friends. Pete admitted that when her friends left and it was just the two of them, he asked if he could kiss her.<doc-sep>But he was just getting started. "I get it. I was jerking off to her before I met her!" he blurted out near the end of the interview when Stern asked Davidson how he deals with the come-ons and objectification that Grande faces on a daily basis. "I've been there. I've been in the other shoes. Who knew I was practicing this whole time [for our relationship.]?" "I literally was like, 'Hi, can I kiss you please?'" he said of his awkwardness in making a first move, and his concern that he was not worthy of her attention. "Any time we're intimate I'm always apologizing and saying thank you. 'You're awesome for doing this, thank you so much.'" The comedian, 24, described his relationship as feeling "like I'm wearing VR glasses," whenever anyone tells him he's too young to get married and hasn't experienced life enough. "Whatever makes her happy makes me happy." Davidson credited Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, for helping them make a love connection, describing how Braun came to visit him at SNL when Davidson was in a particularly dark place. "Scooter told me she has somewhat interested in me," he said of the subsequent invitation to Grande's New York apartment to hang out that he thought was a kind of pity outreach. Grande, who was dressed up after coming from the Met Gala -- as opposed to Davidson's usual stained sweats and a t-shirt outfit -- seemed like she was having fun, but Davidson was so insecure about how things were going that he asked the singer's friend if he should stay after a group of 10 friends had gathered for a get-to-know-you game of Quiplash. Backing up to the genesis of their relationship, Davidson said he and Grande were both in a "similar situation" when they got together, with Grande just having broken up with the late rapper Mac Miller and Davidson splitting from Cazzie David. As everyone knows, their meet cute originally took place three years ago when they locked eyes in the writer's room at SNL, where Davidson thought he made a terrible impression and just stared awkwardly at Grande the whole time. "It's the weirdest, coolest thing that's ever happened," he said of their instant bond and quickie engagement earlier this year. The big question, though, was when the pair were finally going to marry. "We're working on it...we have a game plan," Davidson said of the couple's wedding plans. "I'm just fucking lucky and I hope that I don't wake up." Part of the dream is the fact that Grande is so smitten that she wrote the Sweetener songlet "Pete Davidson" in his honor, something Davidson still can't quite believe. He said Grande came back from the studio one day and told him she made a "little something" about him. "I just thought it was something low-key for us, and then I, like, cried...nobody even opened a door for me. Nobody gives a fuck about me, ever and I was like, 'This is the nicest thing.'" When Stern said he was impressed with Grande's impressions of fellow pop stars such as Britney Spears, Davidson proudly proclaimed, "She can do anybody...anybody that's your favorite singer, she can do exactly like that. Also, she should be on SNL. She's way better at that shit than I am. She's a fucking machine." Congenitally self-deprecating and insecure about his talents, Davidson admitted that before they started dating, he "scrolled through a list of hot guys" Grande might date instead (including all of One Direction) and when she said she wanted to be with him, he said, "All right." In keeping with the theme of his gratitude for Grande coming into his life, Davidson -- whose father was a firefighter who died on 9/11 -- said he thanked her for giving him a key to her New York condo last week. "Thank you again for letting me live in your home," he said he told her, and admitting that he is constantly cleaning to earn his keep. As another example of the mind-bending new reality of dating an international superstar like Grande, Davidson revealed that he's gotten death threats over the relationship. "Someone wanted to shoot me in the face because she's so hot," he said. "You know how insane that is? It's like, 'Am I that ugly that people wanna shoot me in the face?'" Repeatedly returning to the theme of how his newfound fame has been a bit disorienting, Davidson praised his pal Justin Bieber for his ability to take a joke when he appeared in a 2015 Comedy Central roast. "It's fun to see someone be human, be humanized," he said of JB's ability to laugh about himself. "They're these people, you're like, 'This is a star,' then you watch them shit on themselves and think, 'This is nice.'" Watching Bieber expertly take the jokes helped humanize the teen star, who Davidson suspected many people resented for his rapid rise to fame and riches. "I tell him all the time, 'I have no idea how you haven't killed someone,'" he said he tells Bieber. "If I was him...five people, at least...I just mean if I had $200 million and I was 18 years old, I would getting into way worse shenanigans than he's been up to."<doc-sep>What kinda voice comes outta that face? Screenshot : SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show Pardon me for interrupting your afternoon, but I’d love to draw your attention to Pete Davidson, dressed like a first grader, sitting on the couch in Howard Stern’s Sirius XM studio, talking about Ariana Grande, social media, and a bunch of other stuff. Maybe I’m an idiot or maybe I just haven’t paid attention, but... Pete Davidson’s voice is confusing to me, sexually. Advertisement He is tall, skinny, blonde of hair, and strong of jaw—an irrefutable Would that I am not here to debate. His voice, however, does not seem like it should come out of his body! It’s deep, sonorous, full of gravel. A bullfrog, but hot. “Your love story’s amazing,” host Howard Stern says. “Yeah,” Pete vocal-frys in response, and here I am, surprised! Never mind the fact that he was supposedly “jerking off” to Ariana Grande, according to Billboard, before he became engaged. Please disregard the fact that he said this: “Any time we’re intimate, I’m always apologizing and saying ‘Thank you. You’re awesome for doing this, thank you so much.’” Please scrub from your mind the image of Pete Davidson busting a nut and thanking Ariana Grande for existing. I’ll wait. Thank you. Where did that voice come from, from such a tall, lanky man? Why so deep? The vocal fry is what does it for me, personally, reminiscent of Bradley Cooper’s put-on country twang-growl, all grit and whiskey and hard living. Remember when Bradley Cooper touched a nose and made it sexy? Pete Davidson and his deep-ass baritone are doing the same thing for this oversized Giants starter jacket and Calvin Klein Jaws tee. I am not going to say shit about big dick energy, which is probably the force that powers Pete’s voice’s timbre, but I will have you know that I am aware of it, and it is something I’ve considered. The voice is just surprising, that’s all, much like Jared Kushner’s adenoidal honk, but with the direct opposite effect downstairs. “I don’t have the inner-net anymore,” he says, “but I assume they’re not very hah-ppy.” This hint of outer-borough accent, the big teeth. The smile. I get it. Pete Davidson’s voice is hot. Case closed.<doc-sep>
Theo Wargo Getty Images In an interview with Howard Stern on Monday, Pete Davidson admitted that after announcing his sobriety in 2017, he has started smoking weed again. “There was no way I could stop [smoking]. I was like somebody has to put me in a house where there is literally nothing,” he told Stern. The SNL comedian checked himself into rehab in 2016 for what he thought was excessive marijuana use, but he realized the problem wasn't the weed. He was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in 2016. He's opened up about this before, telling Peter Rosenberg on Open Late in June, “I found out I had a mental disorder. I thought I had a drug problem. It’s a completely different thing.” NBC Getty Images Pete explained that he tried the sobriety thing, but it didn't work for him. “I was sober for three months at one point and was like this f*cking sucks,” he told Stern in this new interview. Part of the reason he still uses marijuana, he said, is because of the other health issues he has, including Crohn's disease. “I have Crohn’s disease, so it helps more than you can imagine,” he said. “There was a point where I couldn’t get out of bed. I was 110 pounds,” Davidson said. “I also just love smoking weed. I’ve been smoking weed every day for 8 years.” Once he started smoking weed, he went back to his normal self. That was last year, and now he's engaged to Ariana Grande, which he said is great. You can watch him gush about their love story here: Follow Emma on Instagram. Emma Baty Emma Baty is the Associate Entertainment Editor at Cosmopolitan who focuses on movies and TV.