Mac died Septemfrom an accidental drug overdose. They starting dating in August of 2016, and appeared together in the video for Mac’s song “ My Favorite Part.” They split in May of 2018. Mac appeared on Ariana’s 2013 song “ The Way,” which became the first top 10 hit for both of them. I think she was and still is grappling with what occurred.”

“With something like that, I think that experience with him was traumatic for her, as it would be for anyone. “I tried, but I didn’t get too far,” he explains. But everything was that she was this really positive influence.”Ĭantor didn’t interview Ariana herself for the book, but he’s fine with it. “Sometimes you talk to people and you think they’re going to tell you crazy stuff. “That relationship was very positive and loving between them,” Cantor adds. I thought there would be a lot more salaciousness there and there was not.” He tells USA Today, “I was really surprised a lot of what was discussed after his passing with regard to his relationship with Ariana. Paul Cantor, the author of Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller, interviewed nearly 100 people over three years. A new book about the rapper’s life came out yesterday, and the author says what surprised him the most about writing it was how people described their romance. The late Mac Miller - who was in a relationship with Ariana Grande for nearly two years - would have been 30 today, January 19. Kevin Mazur/One Love Manchester/Getty Images for One Love Manchester

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