{"id":376478,"date":"2025-11-13T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376478\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:19:11","slug":"ariana-grande-charged-by-crazed-fan-on-wicked-red-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376478\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Charged by Crazed Fan on ‘Wicked’ Red Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAriana Grande<\/a> endured a downright frightening moment on the Wicked: For Good red carpet in Singapore on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn several videos going viral (below), a crazed fan broke through the red carpet\u2019s security line, rushed the actress and aggressively threw his arms around her.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd guess who reacted fastest to come to Grande\u2019s defense? <\/p>\n

\n\tCynthia Erivo<\/a> \u2014 who immediately jumped in, helped shove the fan away and then protectively put her arms around Grande. Their co-star Michelle Yeoh also comforted her in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrande looked very shaken by the incident, which comes at a time when politically motivated attacks have increased, and many high-profile celebrities and business leaders have invested<\/a> in additional private security. The fan can be seen grinning, as if finding his actions funny, but his handling of the actress would almost certainly qualify as assault in the United States, and Grande had no way of knowing his intentions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe move also appears to represent a double security fail \u2014 first letting the fan break through to Grande, and then reacting slowly enough that Grande\u2019s co-star was the first person to get hands on Grande\u2019s attacker. As one fan put it: \u201cCynthia having faster reflexes than multiple grown male security\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2017, a terrorist attack occurred outside a Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 attendees. Earlier this year, Grande spoke to THR Awards Chatter podcast<\/a> about experiencing psychological fallout from the tragedy. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was doing so much therapy, and I was dealing with PTSD and all different kinds of grief and depression and anxiety,\u201d she said. \u201cI was, of course, treating it very seriously, but having music be a part of that remedy was absolutely contributing to saving my life. They were dark times, and the music brought so much levity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWicked: For Good had its European premiere in London earlier this week where the stars of\u00a0Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0Wicked<\/a>\u00a0sequel were joined by fellow cast members\u00a0Jonathan Bailey<\/a>,\u00a0Jeff Goldblum<\/a>,\u00a0Ethan Slater<\/a> and Marissa Bode. The first of Chu\u2019s\u00a0Wicked\u00a0films debuted to critical acclaim and swiftly accrued more than $750 million at the global box office. Such was the success of the movie that Erivo and Grande were both nominated for Academy Awards in the best actress and best supporting actress categories, respectively, at the 2025 Oscars. The movie also scored a best picture nomination.<\/p>\n

\n\tWicked: For Good is released in theaters on Nov. 21 and is currently tracking<\/a> for a mammoth $115 to $125 million opening at the Thanksgiving box office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande endured a downright frightening moment on the Wicked: For Good red carpet in Singapore on Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":376479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179,26732,171,67,132,68,17498],"class_list":{"0":"post-376478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-cynthia-erivo","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wicked"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115543773207433067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}