i could work with friend or ex - max went very off the rails between 2010 and 2013 and then probably again 2015 to 2017ish, with the birth of his daughter and his third record coming in the middle there. so they can either have been together pre-2010 when he was just the fast and loose, good time guy; or in either one of the spirals where he'd have been up and down and she would probably not still want to be friends; or something more recent? he was never technically with the mother of his daughter, so there are a bunch of options to play with.