Here’s What Pete Davidson Nicknamed His Apartment in the Home He Shares With His Mom
Pete Davidson isn’t ashamed to admit that he lives with his mom — and the Saturday Night Live star revealed some details about his digs during an April 18 appearance on The Tonight Show. “We bought a house together, but nobody believes that,” said the Staten Island native. “I live with my mom, kinda, so I have, like, a basement that's mine that’s, like, an apartment. So I live underneath her, so I’m getting a little arcade set up down there trying to make it ... mine.”
According to Davidson, he initially wanted to call his basement studio “the Man Cave,” but his comedy touring partner, John Mulaney, wasn’t into it. “I was calling it ‘the Man Cave,’ but the Mulaneys told me if I call it that they would no longer be my friend,” Davidson explained. “Now I call it ‘The Basement,’ like The Ohio State University. It means something … it’s the ‘the’ that’s important.”
According to real-estate records obtained by Page Six, Davidson and his mom did indeed buy a home on Staten Island together for $4.5 million. The house features four bedrooms and four bathrooms, and boasts a private master wing and custom kitchen.
Davidson previously lived with his then-fiancée Ariana Grande at her $16 million Chelsea apartment, which she purchased after they began their whirlwind engagement in the spring of 2018. The more than 4,000-square-foot apartment came with numerous over-the-top building amenities, including a private IMAX theater, a 75-foot indoor pool lit by a massive skylight, and an entire wellness floor with a private spa, steam room, sauna, and plunge pool. An on-site fitness center, an automated valet system, and a private party space also came with the lease. The couple was spotted furniture-shopping at Restoration Hardware last June in an effort to fill out their apartment, which had “no furniture, one speaker, and Red Vines," Grande joked on Instagram soon after they moved in. In an interview with GQ last summer, Davidson downplayed his part in setting up the apartment, telling the magazine, “She’s really sweet. She’s like, ‘This is our house,’ and I’m like, ‘You’re very nice for saying that. Thank you for letting me stay here.’ She’s like, ‘We’re getting married!’ And I’m like, ‘I know, thank you for letting me stay here.’”
