It will (mostly) just be dates and links. “I am happy for her in moving forward with her life,” he continued, “just as I’m sure she is with me.Authors note: There will be little to no commentary/speculation in this part when referring to Mac, especially in 2018. Read more Rolling Stone: How Sia Saved Herself She had always prayed for his sobriety and cared for him deeply, and given the many years they had known each other, it’s hard to suspect that those claims are anything but true. His comments mirrored what Grande had continued to say in her note about their breakup. “It’s all positive energy,” Miller said previously in a Beats 1 interview about Grande’s engagement, prior to releasing "Swimming ," his final album. “I’m only going to say this once, this isn’t Ariana’s fault and if anything it unfortunately proves the very real nature of the things she tweeted me about,” he wrote. Even Flint, the Twitter user who previously connected the couple’s break-up to Miller’s car accident, has had a change of heart. Meanwhile, many fans of both Miller and Grande - as well as those who have born witness to the nasty comments hurled at her - have come to her defense. Cobain died two decades before these social media platforms even existed, yet the fact that Love’s comments can still attract a rogue claim like this speaks volumes to the way society continues to expect women to be caretakers for the men in their lives and reacts with fury when they apparently cannot absorb their partners’ pain. Even Courtney Love is still fielding social media comments and blog conspiracy theories that she not only was the reason Kurt Cobain became addicted to heroin (she was not) but also that she had actually murdered him and faked his suicide (also untrue). These claims and conspiracies - often solely perpetuated by the most toxically masculine factions of fandoms - sometimes never disappear. Read more Rolling Stone: 10 Essential Mac Miller Songsįan claims such as these stem from the most dangerous branch of pop culture’s continuous fascination with the so-called “Yoko Effect” and its desire to connect female partners to actions they may not comprehend.
And because, in this case, Grande had very publicly moved on to meet the man she has called her “soul mate,” her outward happiness was enough proof for the most misogynistic of commenters that Miller’s downfall was her fault. Especially where fame and fandom are involved, the gossipy headlines about betrayal and heartbreak seem like a more tangible cause for tragedy than the reality that no matter how much support they have, even the strongest of our heroes can lose the battles they fight. Grande is not the first woman to carry the weight of a romantic partner’s demons on her shoulder. She disabled the comments on her Instagram soon after and has since only returned to the app to post a sweet photo of Millerwith what appear to be her own sneakers peeking out from the bottom of the frame, indicating it was an image she had taken herself from their time together.
Even the wording of TMZ’s article - where news of Miller’s death first broke - implied that their break-up was a key reason for Miller’s further spiral into addiction this year. Her Instagram comments and Twitter mentions immediately became filled with gendered slurs, libelous claims that she murdered him and expletive-laden exclamations of grief-fueled hurt and finger-pointing. Not only did many dilute his legacy to be that of a once-boyfriend to a popular singer, but others decided to once again place the blame on Grande. When Miller tragically died of a suspected overdose on Friday, Grande’s name was immediately trending on Twitter. “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.” “How absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship because he wrote an album about them,” she wrote, noting that only one song on Miller’s " Divine Feminine" was explicitly about her. Read more Rolling Stone: Mac Miller Dead at 26 She never described Miller in any way other than as someone she loved and cared for deeply who had a disease she couldn’t control. In a lengthy Notes app screed, the singer, 25, laid out how terrifying it is to be a partner to someone battling addiction. Flint’s tweet wasn’t the only comment like that at the time, but it was the only one Grande responded to.
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