Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater are “relieved” by his ex-wife’s essay about their divorce

The essay marked the first time Jay broke her silence about her divorce from Slater, who reportedly began dating Grande while they were on the set of “Wicked.”

Shortly before her romance with Ethan Slater began, Ariana Grande also divorced her ex-husband Dalton Gomez.

Last year, Slater and Grande courted controversy over their relationship, which allegedly contributed to his split from his ex-wife Jay.

Since those rumors, Slater and Jay have divorced, and she remained silent about the ordeal until she recently penned an emotional essay about it.

In response to the essay, sources close to Slater and Grande claim that the duo read the article and are “relieved” that Jay didn’t “throw them under the bus.”

“Ethan and Ariana are aware of what happened, as is everyone who was nearby at the time. “(Lilly) made it clear that she moved to London with him and the timeline from that point on speaks for itself,” a source said Daily Mail.

They added: “Filming was still taking place when they were first seen intimate in photos and Lilly was no longer there, so people can put two and two together – Lilly didn’t have to.”

According to the source, Slater and Jay’s divorce agreement “restricted” them from “disclosing certain details” of how their relationship deteriorated.

“During the trial, Lilly was virtually silenced and unable to speak freely. Despite the circumstances, she emerged from the divorce as the winner,” the source said.

However, Jay was still able to express her “emotions surrounding the ordeal,” and while she did so, she showed “dignity” by not highlighting the “affair” in her emotional post.

“She knows that one day her son will read about it online, and she wanted him to read that her first and only words about it were in a respectful and elegant way,” the insider explained of the psychologist’s decision.

They also claimed that Jay took so long to break her silence because she wanted to “control her own narrative and tell her story on her terms” rather than leaving it up to the media that reached out to her.

Among the many things she discussed in her essay The cutJay revealed that she not only accepted the sudden public breakdown of her marriage, but was also not ashamed of it.

She wrote: “I tell myself there is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide. Slowly but surely, I came to the conclusion that the life I had planned with my high school sweetheart was not happening.”

Still, she and the actor, who has a two-year-old son, have continued to co-parent the child as they move on with the new chapters of their lives.

She added: “While our partnership has changed, our parenting has not. We both love our son 100 percent, regardless of how our parenting time is divided. As for me, the days with my son are sunny. The days are darker when I can’t escape the publicity of a film that is linked to the saddest days of my life.”

Sources previously shared that Jay was “completely surprised” by Slater’s relationship with Grande, who also split from her husband Dalton Gomez.

“It’s terrible. They were high school sweethearts. You have a baby! She’s a wreck,” a source saidPage six.

At the time, the source also suggested that Grande played a role in their “breakup” as “nothing seemed wrong” between Slater and Jay before he met the pop star on the set of “Wicked.”

Jay also criticized Grande in an interview with Page six amid calls calling on her to tell her story,

“(Ariana’s) story, really. “Not a girl for girls,” Jay told the outlet. “My family is just collateral damage.”

Since the singer’s romance with Slater became public knowledge, they have been blatantly flaunting it. In September last year, they were spotted enjoying a couple’s outing Disney world

However, Jay, who remained largely under the radar until her latest essay, told the news outlet that she is focused on raising her and Slater’s baby and being “a good mother.”