Pete Davidson is finally coming clean about how rumors about the size of his endowment have affected him for all these years.
Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of The Breakfast Club, the 31-year-old Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson admitted it made him uncomfortable to see his manhood become a running joke and headline fodder in Hollywood.
The chatter exploded after his ex fiancée, pop star Ariana Grande, 31, posted, then quickly deleted, a 2018 tweet claiming his penis was ’10 inches’ long
The remark went viral and cemented his anatomy as a pop culture punchline.
The conversation shifted to some of Pete’s more unpleasant memories as he reflected on his time at Saturday Night Live and what he brought to the iconic NBC sketch show.
‘I brought a lot of pop culture into the show – I made it sort of a tabloidy, trendy thing unintentionally,’ he admitted.
But the glare of that spotlight left him feeling ’embarrassed,’ believing it distracted and even overshadowed his actual comedic ability.
The remark went viral and cemented his anatomy as a pop culture punchline.
The conversation shifted to some of Pete’s more unpleasant memories as he reflected on his time at Saturday Night Live and what he brought to the iconic NBC sketch show.
‘I brought a lot of pop culture into the show – I made it sort of a tabloidy, trendy thing unintentionally,’ he admitted.
But the glare of that spotlight left him feeling ’embarrassed,’ believing it distracted and even overshadowed his actual comedic ability.
‘No one talked about any work I was doing,’ Pete Davidson said. ‘They were just like, ‘Oh, that’s the f*** stick.’ And that hurt so much.’
He admitted his Saturday Night Live colleagues could see how ‘sad’ he was over the constant focus on his personal life.
‘No one was outright mean, by any means,’ he stressed of the cast and crew.
Host Charlamagne tha God joked that, from the outside, the attention looked like a win.
‘You were banging a lot of hot chicks and you had a 10-inch penis,’ he told the comic.
Pete – sporting a thick mustache – grinned and quipped: ‘On paper, that sounds great.’
But in reality, he said, the rumors were ’embarrassing,’ especially in Hollywood, where ‘everybody f***s everyone.’
He questioned why the spotlight stayed fixed on his romantic life instead of his work.
Ultimately, Pete Davidson believes the obsession stems from the fact he’s ‘not Glen Powell handsome.’
‘I’m just like this dude that tells d*** jokes and is a drug addict,’ he said bluntly.
The comic stressed he wasn’t playing the victim, saying things are ‘cool’ for him now, but argued there was a double standard in the ‘sexualization’ he endured.
‘If that was a girl, people would be like… there would be a march for it. Seriously,’ he said. ‘You’re just talking about my d*** all day.’
The chat then veered to the origin of the phrase ‘big d*** energy,’ which fans claimed Pete radiated during his whirlwind romance with Ariana Grande.
‘I think it was like The New York Times or something… when I started dating someone they considered out of my league. I mean, I think everyone’s out of my league — but they were like, ‘This guy must have big d*** energy.’
‘And then someone confirmed it,’ he added, appearing to reference the Thank U, Next singer’s infamous tweet.
In June 2018, a fan asked Ariana on X (then Twitter) ‘how long is Pete???’ — referring to a short interlude on her Sweetener album — and the pop star couldn’t resist the cheeky double entendre.
‘Like 10 inches?’ she replied, before adding, ‘Oh f***… i mean… like a lil over a minute.’
The Wicked star’s relationship with Pete ended up being short lived. The two began dating in May of 2018 and got engaged just a month into the relationship, but things had fizzled out between the two by November of that year.
Pete went on to say that he came to resent that lack of separation between his personal and public lives.
‘Living through that is sort of traumatic. Like not to be like lame, but like it’s traumatic to live in your own crap all the time,’ he said.
Pete — who went on to date other famous women including Kim Kardashian, Kate Beckinsale, Chase Sui-Wonders and Emily Ratajkowski — seems to have found new happiness with his girlfriend Elsie Hewitt lately.
He and the 29-year-old London-born model revealed last month that they were expecting their first child together, and since then the two have showed off plenty of loved-up displays.