Ariana Grande tried to help Mac Miller get sober

Ariana Grande had to turn off her Instagram comments after trolls blamed her for ex-boyfriend Mac Miller‘s death, but one of the rapper’s close friends insists she was integral in keeping Miller sober and healthy.

“She was incredible when he was first sobering up,” Miller’s friend Shane Powers said on his podcast “The Shane Show” on Monday. “She was a f–king G to him … There could not have been anybody more supportive of him being sober than Ariana. I saw that. I was around it.”

He continued, “I took phone calls from her: ‘How do I help? What do I do?’ This little girl was unbelievably involved and helpful to him being healthy. Because whether he’s an addict or not, the way that Mac partied was not healthy, but there was no one in his life more ready to go to the wall for him when it came to him being sober.”

“She was an unbelievably stabilizing force in his life, and she was deeply helpful and effective in keeping Mac sober and helping him get sober, and she was all about him being healthy, period, in this area of his life.”

Miller died of an apparent overdose on Friday. He was 26 years old.

Grande, 25, has not spoken publicly about Miller’s death except to post a captionless photo of him to Instagram on Saturday.

The pair reportedly broke up in April after two years together, though they didn’t announce they’d called it quits until May.

The “God Is a Woman” singer, who quickly moved on with “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, later described their relationship as “toxic.”

“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 snapped at a follower on Twitter after she and Miller split. “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be … I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety & prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course) but shaming/blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his s–t together is a very major problem.”

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