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Big Sean and Ariana Grande 'Break Free' from each other

Also in Tattle: Roseanne losing sight, seeing help in weed, Marvel news update abd more

TOGETHER THEY HAD A BIG HIT record with "Problem" and now Big Sean and Ariana Grande have one less.

Or one more.

The couple have ended their nine-month relationship, according to E! News (or their eight-month relationship, according to Us Weekly).

This is. The part where they break free . . .

The pair's (fitting for 4/20) joint statement read: "They both care deeply for each other and remain close friends. We kindly ask that the media respect their wish for privacy regarding this personal matter at this time."

Tattle asks: If the relationship is so public, why does the breakup have to be so private?

We want every messy detail.

Eh, not really. In a month they'll be madly in love with someone new. It was only a few months ago that Big Sean (who had previously been engaged to Naya Rivera) told Ryan Seacrest, "That Ariana is very, very special. She's very special to me.

"Everything she has going on is good with her, everything I have going on is good with me, everything between me and her is good, and I'm just going to leave it at that."

Since E! monitors this stuff the way C-SPAN monitors congressional speeches, the network also notes that Big Sean told "The Real": "We started out as friends, but that was the thing. It progressed from there, and that's the first time I've ever been in a situation where we started as friends and it progressed, so that's what it is."

He continued: "What I like in women is when they got drive and focus, you know what I mean? That's what I like, I attach to, I appreciate, because I got drive, I got focus, too. And every day I'm like, 'You gotta get it.' "

Well, he got it.

Moving on . . .

Barr likes weed

Happy 4/20 from Roseanne Barr.

The Daily Beast reports that the comedian is going blind because of macular degeneration and glaucoma. That means not only is she funny, so are her cigarettes.

Marijuana is "good medicine," the legalization advocate said.

"It's expansive. It opens your mind," Barr added. "You're like . . . wow, you're in awe. You look up into the stars. It makes you wonder. It doesn't close that down."

Marvel to try horror?

While attending the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" press event, Tattle Comics Guy Jerome Maida got a few minutes with Marvel Studios mastermind Kevin Feige.

Feige said that producing their superhero films in different genres has been key to Marvel's success - and it may not be too long before Marvel's horror characters are part of the company's film universe.

He mentioned Ghost Rider and a certain vampire hunter as examples (those characters have already been in solo movies - like "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men") apart from the all-encompassing Marvel strategy begun in 2008 with "Iron Man."

"Blade has already proven itself to be a viable [property with] three movies and a TV show a number of years ago. So that could definitely be a possibility," Feige said.

Feige also said he didn't yet know ABC's decision regarding "Agent Carter."

"They love Hayley Atwell and told us they'd be making a decision soon, but I don't know what that decision will be," he said.

Atwell will be a guest at this year's Wizard World Philly Con, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (May 7-11), and the Daily News will have lots more on Feige, "Avengers," "Mad Max: Fury Road," "Terminator Genisys" and this year's Wizard Convention in the weeks ahead.

TATTBITS

* HBO has scored the Web comedy series "High Maintenance."

The network said yesterday that it will premiere six new episodes of the series, which centers on a Brooklyn pot dealer and his offbeat clients.

Highly acclaimed in its current home on the Vimeo website, the stash of 19 previous episodes of "High Maintenance" also will be available on HBO later this year.

The series is created and written by the married duo Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, who stars as the friendly pot dealer.

The couple say they've been "growing this show organically" as a Web presence and now hope for a budding hit.

Julia Wolfe's "Anthracite Fields" has won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

Judges described Wolfe's work as a "powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th century."

Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money" was robbed.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.