Ethan Slater’s ex-wife, Lilly Jay, found herself thrust into the spotlight after his alleged 2023 affair with Wicked co-star Ariana Grande and has been navigating a semi-public life ever since.

“I am actively trying to figure out what it means to have any degree of a voice, especially one that I sort of stumbled into and didn’t really ask for,” Jay, a psychologist focused on perinatal mental health, told Glamour in May.

Slater and Jay were married for five years actor officially filed for divorce on July 26, 2023, after People reported that he “recently” started dating his Wicked co-star Grande. This came a week after sources also began to report that Grande separated from her husband of two years, Dalton Gomez, back in January of that year.

However, speculation soon brewed that the tim

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