Ariana Grande talks about forcing her divorced parents to be friends again
Ariana Grande says she helped her parents mend their relationship after they divorced
- LOS ANGELES — Singer-actress
Ariana Grande says she helped her parents mend their relationship after they
divorced.
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- She opened up about “forcing” her mom Joan Grande and dad
Edward Butera to be friends again after they split on an episode of the WTF
with Marc Maron podcast, reports people.com.
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- “They’re not together, but they’re best friends. It took 18
years and it took me forcing it. I forced them to communicate again. I really
did,” Grande said.
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- Her parents split when she was a child, and the singer
explained that she’d finally taken a stand around her 24th birthday in 2017.
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- “I remember just kind of being at this pivotal point where I
was just like, ‘You guys, I love you both so much. It’s been such a long time.
Figure it out,’” she recalled.
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- “Like hello, it’s been 18 years. I’m 80 (years old). Please
get over it. And they did.”
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- The singer’s plea worked, and she says Joan, 67, and Ed, 66,
are “best friends now.”
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- “I can’t separate them. It’s the best thing in the whole
world. I guess they just had like, some sort of beautiful conversation or
realised that like, how much they love me is so much louder than whatever nonsense
happened way back when.”
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- “It really is beautiful, and if only they had the tools that
I feel like we have now, this generation, with therapy and embracing that,
maybe it could have happened sooner, but it was just the perfect thing…. It
makes me really happy.”
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- Grande’s parents often show their support for their
daughter; in 2020, she brought them both to the Grammy Awards and they posed
together on the red carpet as a happy family.
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- In November, Joan and Ed also stepped out together for the
Los Angeles premiere of “Wicked”, in which Grande is credited as Ariana
Grande-Butera.
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- “I just feel like this experience was such a homecoming for
me. That was my name when I went to see the show when I was 10 years old, and
it felt like a really lovely way of honouring that. It felt really full
circle,” she had said.
