Ariana Grande Uncomfortable Over Nickelodeon Query

A few of Ariana’s Nickelodeon scenes have been reexamined lately amid the discharge of the 2024 docuseries Quiet on Set, which explored the darkish facet of kids’s TV.

“I believe that the surroundings must be made safer if youngsters are going to be appearing,” she stated on the Podcrushed podcast final June. “I believe there ought to be therapists. I believe there ought to be mother and father allowed to be wherever they wanna be. Not solely on youngsters’ units — I believe if anybody needs to do that or music or something on the degree of publicity that it means to be on TV or to do music with a serious label or no matter, there ought to be within the contract one thing about ‘remedy is necessary twice per week.'”

Ariana has continued to advocate for the significance of providing younger stars remedy — most not too long ago this week, throughout a wide-ranging chat with the Hollywood Reporter.

At one level throughout the dialog, Ariana was requested if she ever felt “unsafe” on Nickelodeon units. The journalist famous that Ariana appeared “uncomfortable” with the query, and averted answering it immediately.

“I’ve kind of talked in regards to the protecting measures that I believe must be put in place,” Ariana replied, with the journalist noting that she was “sidestepping” the query.

Ariana later continued, “I’ve goals of a world the place you’re not allowed to enter the leisure trade with out having [therapy] written in your contract, whether or not it’s with the file label or the manufacturing firm, that there will probably be remedy a number of occasions per week and a assist system. Being on a present that adjustments your life or releasing a track that adjustments your life exposes you to many forces, each love and hate, and there’s no guide.”

Given how open Ariana has been about “reprocessing” her time on Nickelodeon, a number of web customers have known as THR out for asking her about her time on the community so abruptly.

One individual branded the query “inappropriate,” writing on X, “It is Ariana’s selection to inform her facet of the story and she or he clearly is not prepared, so individuals want to present her house about this. Truthfully a reasonably inappropriate query, appears they have been simply making an attempt to get a narrative out of her.”

“Folks do not owe you their trauma. Guys, celebrities are human. It is disrespectful to ask her a few probably (almost definitely) traumatic expertise and anticipate her to present a solution. Wow,” one other consumer wrote.

“the continual strain on her to reveal the main points about all of that is very weird. you don’t see any of the opposite victorious costars being requested consistently,” somebody stated.

Yet another consumer added, “I really feel like… no one ought to ask her about it. Let her come out and talk about it on her personal when she’s prepared.”