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In August, Davidson said that he and Grande actually decided to marry the day they met.

For her part, last summer, Grande told Jimmy Fallon that “we weren’t even friends for a long time but I had the biggest crush in the whole world on him the whole time.”

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They got tattoos memorializing their love and even bought a baby pig as a house pet.

By September, Davidson said that he had been threatened with violence over the relationship.

\"I got a death threat,” he told Howard Stern in an interview. “Someone wanted to shoot me in the face because she’s so hot. Do you know how insane that is? I was like, 'Am I that ugly that people want to shoot me in the face?'\"

By October, the couple had split up.

Then came November, when Davidson prompted a stinging public backlash after an “SNL” segment in which he playfully mocked an eye-patch worn by Texas Republican congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy Seal who sustained the injury during the war in Afghanistan.

Crenshaw made a surprise appearance on the following week’s \"Weekend Update\" segment with Davidson. Crenshaw took his turn playfully mocking Davidson, whom, when the laughs died down, shared both an apology and his own personal tragedy.

'The worst thing that could ever happen to anybody'

Davidson has long-acknowledged that the death of his firefighter father in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center fundamentally changed him.

Pete was 7 when his father and five other New York firefighters (FDNY) charged across the Brooklyn Bridge towards the World Trade Center towers, and were last seen racing up the stairs to help evacuate guests from the Marriott World Trade Center Hotel -– which was destroyed when the towers collapsed.

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PHOTO: Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande attend the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 20, 2018 in New York.
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Scott Davidson was a legendary cut-up among friends and colleagues, according to the New York Post.

“Scott was always clowning around,” Jaime Hatton Cregin, the elder Davidson’s former schoolmate at Staten Island’s St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School told the newspaper. “Telling jokes, making people laugh.”

Retired firefighter John Sorrentino said that Davidson had a “brutally honest” sense of humor.

“He had the ability to insult you but make you feel good about it.”

Davidson has his father’s FDNY badge number, 8418, tattooed on his left arm, according to the New York Times.

“There’s nothing I won’t joke about, and I think it’s because of what happened to me,” he told the newspaper in 2015 feature profile, seemingly in reference to his father’s death.

“That’s the worst thing that could ever happen to somebody. Now it’s just like, ‘Who cares, man?’”

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PHOTO: In this March 14, 2015, file photo, Pete Davidson speaks at a Comedy Central Roast in Culver City, Calif.
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But he said that suicidal thoughts haunted him during the years after the 9/11 attacks, pinning his survival to music.

\"I would've killed myself if I didn't have Kid Cudi,\" Davidson said at the time. \"I would've killed myself. Absolutely 100 percent. I truly believe if Man on the Moon didn't come out, I wouldn't be here,\" he said, referring to the artist's 2009 debut album, \"Man on the Moon: The End of the Day.\"

Davidson first appeared on television at the age of 15 on an MTV comedy series and went on to be featured on Comedy Central’s popular \"Gotham Comedy Live,\" a platform to feature up-and-coming comics. More reality and comedy series appearances followed.

He played a bit part in a Judd Apatow film and met SNL cast member Bill Hader, who later hustled him an audition with Lorne Michaels.

He was only 20 when he joined the \"SNL\" cast in 2014.

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