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Elsie Hewitt’s social posts implied she is juggling work and new motherhood on her own. People in Pete Davidson’s circle insist he is covering the bills, changing his schedule, and trying to protect his reputation as a present dad.
The split between Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt has moved from private heartbreak to a public referendum, played out on Instagram Stories, TikTok whispers, and blunt comments on X. At the center are their infant daughter, Scottie, and an emerging question about what kind of father Davidson is prepared to be.
According to a source close to the former couple who spoke with Page Six, Davidson has stepped up financially behind the scenes, even as Hewitt appears to be signaling something very different online. The insider said, “Pete has been paying for everything related to Elsie and Scottie,” listing “the rent, their living expenses, their health insurance,” and calling any suggestion that he is not providing “utterly false.”
The same source framed the split as painful but, in Davidson’s mind, not an exit from fatherhood. They said the “Bupkis” star “may have split, but all he wants is for Elsie to be happy and in a good place,” and insisted “his main priority right now is making sure that Elsie and Scottie are looked after.” The insider added that he has adjusted his work calendar, saying, “Pete is doing everything to be super supportive to Elsie; he has changed his schedule and done everything he can to be there physically and financially.”
Hewitt gave a very different impression when she turned the camera on herself. In a since-deleted Instagram Story, the “Industry” actress posted a selfie covered in lipstick kisses and wrote that she was looking for an “assistant/mother’s helper/nanny type / basically [a] right hand person,” adding, “Apply here if qualified and serious. Only looking @ responses with resumes. ($ of course.)
On TikTok, she went quieter and more vulnerable. In a soft-voiced selfie video, Hewitt told viewers, “I have a baby to take care of. I have to work and make money. I’m doing it on my own, which is hard.” That single line about doing it “on my own” lit up comment sections and pushed their breakup into a new, more heated chapter.
One fan wrote that it was “very unfair to have to do this alone.” Another shot back that “the baby’s father is in her life & he also has a job.” On a repost of the clip, an X commenter went further, declaring, “Well, Pete Davidson is a deadbeat confirmed.” For a comedian whose romantic history has been debated for years, the phrase “deadbeat” is a new, far more personal label for his team to push back against.
The relationship itself was already under strain. The Sun reported that the “Saturday Night Live” alum and Hewitt, who welcomed Scottie in December 2025, recently ended their relationship due to ongoing problems. A source told the outlet that Davidson had been traveling frequently for work while Hewitt wanted more support at home, and that both are now “focusing 100% on Scottie.”
In New York, Hewitt has been photographed on coffee runs with Scottie’s stroller. Davidson, meanwhile, is trying to sell the sprawling Salem, New York, property they once shared, a sign that their brief chapter of domestic life together is coming to an end.
For now, the public sees two competing realities. There is the exhausted young mother whispering into her phone that she is doing it alone. There is the high-profile father whose friends insist he is paying every bill and moving his life around his child. Somewhere in the middle is a baby girl and two parents quietly figuring out what co-parenting will really look like once the headlines fade.
Do social media posts change how you view a celebrity as a partner or parent, or do you wait for the fuller story to emerge off camera?
