{"id":979489,"date":"2026-08-04T06:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979489\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:09:23","slug":"ariana-grande-addresses-public-hiatus-news-in-4-minute-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979489\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande addresses public hiatus news in 4-minute speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ariana Grande<\/a> delivered a four-minute speech to more than 20,000 of her fans in Chicago on Monday night amid reports that she\u2019s stepping away from the public eye due to online scrutiny. <\/p>\n

During the first of three sold-out shows at Chicago\u2019s United Center, the \u201cBreak Free\u201d singer stopped the concert to address the widespread speculation surrounding her weekend announcement that she\u2019d be stepping away from the public eye when her Eternal Sunshine tour concludes on Sept. 1. <\/p>\n

Grande read the prepared statement from her phone, telling the audience that she didn\u2019t want to get nervous and forget. <\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes when a story comes out that\u2019s not directly from me, things can get a little blown out of proportion,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cSo I just wanted to speak to my fans directly tonight because I love you so much.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo basically, the announcement that was made yesterday was not a reactive or impulsive thing. It is something that I had decided. It\u2019s a plan that I had quietly made a long time ago, and it\u2019s a decision that was made from a thoughtful and empowered place, and I want you to know that many, many things can be true at the same time. I want to share this because I heard that my fans were worried that negativity was ruining things for me, but I just have to say, that could not be more the f\u2014 opposite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not what that is and I just want to make that very, very clear. Nothing can be ruined. Multiple things can be true at the same time. Boundaries can need to be set. Human beings can need a break sometimes. And also, this can be and will continue to be the greatest experience of my professional and creative life. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have one more thing to say,\u201d she continued. \u201cNo matter what noises exist out there, nothing will ever be able to distort my reality or be more real to me, or louder to to me, than this love that we share, or than how it feels to make art with the people that I love and respect. Absolutely nothing will change that or distort that for me. And I want you to know that. I love you, and this is what I will always take with me and carry with me because the rest of that s\u2014 is not mine to carry, so I don\u2019t carry it. I needed to get up here and differentiate that from my truth for you all, because I love you, and this tour has been the most healing, beautiful, corrective, magnificent, special experience and so has putting out [the album] \u201cPetal.\u201d It\u2019s been extraordinary. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wish that words were enough to articulate just how much I love you all.\u201d<\/p>\n

A representative for Grande on Sunday announced her upcoming hiatus in a statement shared with multiple<\/a> outlets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The announcement coincided with news that the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated star would be dropping out of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s West End revival of \u201cSunday in the Park With George,\u201d in which she was set to star next summer opposite Jonathan Bailey. <\/p>\n

Grande \u201clooks forward to finishing [her current] tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Grande will then take \u201ca much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny.\u201d <\/p>\n

The announcement followed the Friday release of Grande\u2019s eighth studio album, \u201cPetal,\u201d and the accompanying music video<\/a> for the title track in which the pop star takes out a panel of her critics with a chainsaw. In response to the video, fans and foes alike flooded the comments section with remarks about Grande\u2019s appearance and apparent weight loss. <\/p>\n

The Times\u2019 pop music critic Mikael Wood wrote of the album<\/a>, \u201c[T]he pop superstar opens the spigot on what she\u2019s described as an \u2018unfiltered rage\u2019 to blast any number of feckless exes, a prying public obsessed with her body and her personal life \u2014 and not least herself for allowing anyone the power to hurt her in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande delivered a four-minute speech to more than 20,000 of her fans in Chicago on Monday night…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[393063,12260,33792,179,56852,1582,276,960,21200,1888,2961,224,5337,61483,375573,393064,76182,1404,17823,393062],"class_list":["post-979489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-4-minute-speech","tag-album","tag-appearance","tag-ariana-grande","tag-break","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-chicago","tag-concert","tag-fan","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-prepared-statement","tag-public-eye","tag-public-hiatus-news","tag-same-time","tag-sunday","tag-thing","tag-weekend-announcement"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117035752939599385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979489","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=979489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}