Ariana Grande once revealed Jeffrey Dahmer as her dream dinner guest during a Q&A with young fans and parents.
Reaching Ariana Grande‘s star power is something the vast majority could only dream of, but when you’ve got a back catalog of music like hers, it would be strange if she wasn’t one of the biggest pop icons of the modern era. The 30-year-old American singer has topped the Billboard Hot 100, won two Grammys, released seven studio albums in just over a decade, and songs like We Can’t Be Friends, 7 Rings, and The Boy Is Mine are unshakeable hits. Her heights look unreachable, but if you’re fascinated with true crime, she may be more relatable than you think…
Ariana Grande chose Jeffrey Dahmer as dream dinner guest during Q&A
Although Ariana doesn’t need an introduction for all the right reasons, the same cannot be said for notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was portrayed by actor Evan Peters in the 2022 Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
Sitting down for a recent episode of the Podcrushed podcast hosted by Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari, Ariana recapped a somewhat uncomfortable experience.
“It was in a Q&A with fans, with young fans,” she set the scene. “It was in between me being Cat [in the Nickelodeon show Sam & Cat] and pop stuff, so it was like a younger group, and they were with parents, and someone said. ‘If you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?’”
She threw caution out to parents before giving her honest response: “I was like, ‘Oh, you’re so cute. Mom and Dad, is it okay if I give the real answer?’ And they were like, ‘Sure, what’s the answer?’ and I was like, ‘I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty fascinating. I think I would have loved to have met him. You know, maybe with a third party or someone involved. But I have questions.’”
Evan starred in Ariana’s music video for “We Can’t Be Friends (wait for your love)”, with Penn (who plays a murderer in the Netflix series You) also in her The Boy Is Mine video.
“I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger,” Ariana confessed on the podcast, so their casting makes all the more sense—surely she’s seen both of the shows they star in, respectively.
Fans have slammed her answer as ‘vile’
The hosts of the podcast found humor in Ariana’s awkward Q&A encounter, and plenty of fans have too. Meanwhile, others have been quick to criticize.
“This is so vile…” a fan commented on a clip of the singer’s story re-shared to Reddit “I have a great interest in crime cases but the LAST thing I’d want to do is have dinner with a serial killer. Let’s stop glorifying these psychos….”
“We are not joking about a serial killer who murdered with impunity…” another reacted, with somebody commenting “how edgy” in mockery.
“She has such a weird fixation with this type of stuff,” one suggested. “It is so tone deaf and dehumanizing/disrespectful to the victims and their loved ones.”
A string of comments reflected the same outrage: “Ain’t nothing cute, edgy, cool, or okay with saying this.” Some have taken issue more with the fact she answered with parents and their children present, deeming it inappropriate to bring up. Yikes.
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