Ethan Slater’s ex-wife, Lilly Jay, is opening up on life after the “Wicked” star left her and abruptly started a brand new relationship with co-star Ariana Grande.
Jay, a licensed medical psychologist, finalized her divorce from the Tony-nominated actor in September of final yr, amid him going public together with his co-star. The former couple, who have been married in 2018 after relationship in highschool, share a 2-year-old son.
Jay broke her silence in a private essay revealed Thursday by The Cut.
“Slowly however certainly, I’ve come to consider that within the absence of the life I deliberate with my high-school sweetheart, a lifetime of sweetness is ready for me and my baby,” Jay wrote. “While our partnership has modified, our parenthood has not. Both of us fiercely love our son 100% of the time, no matter how our parenting time is split.”
Jay added that days along with her son “are sunny” even when she “can’t escape the promotion of a film related to the saddest days of my life.”
But the Columbia and Long Island University alum revealed the high-profile break up has taken a toll on her professionally.
“I can’t say for positive how a lot my profession has been impacted by what’s on the market on-line,” she wrote. “But there have been hints alongside the way in which, just like the job supply that dissolved with out rationalization after yet one more tabloid information cycle or the affected person who’s scheduled for a primary appointment however seemingly vanishes.”
According to her LinkedIn profile, Jay not too long ago started a job with Prospect Psychology in New York. She beforehand labored in perinatal care on the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
“I beloved my life working in a serving to occupation and being immersed within the particulars of different folks’s tales fairly than documenting my very own narrative for public consumption,” the Maryland native mirrored.
Jay’s essay comes after greater than a yr of silence on her public breakup from the Broadway star.
Slater first filed divorce paperwork in July 2023 amid a rumored romance with Grande, who break up from her husband of two years, Dalton Gomez, that exact same month. The new couple reportedly met on the set of “Wicked,” although sources have insisted they have been each separated from their respective spouses previous to embarking on their very own romance.
Insiders beforehand advised TMZ that Jay was devastated by the break up and felt her husband had deserted their household.
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