On a current episode of Penn Badgley’s podcast, Podcrushed, Ariana Grande recounted a fan Q&A throughout which she revealed she’d “like to have met” serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
In accordance with the singer and actor, the occasion in query came about earlier in her profession, between her time on Nickelodeon and full ascent to pop stardom. Grande was requested who she’d choose for a dinner with anybody lifeless or alive — and her reply wasn’t fairly what the gang of principally younger followers had anticipated.
“Jeffrey Dahmer’s fairly fascinating. I believe I might’ve liked to have met him,” she recalled saying, earlier than jokingly clarifying, “Possibly with a 3rd celebration or one thing.”
She continued, “I’ve questions I might have liked [to ask him]. The mother and father have been like, ‘We’ll clarify later.’” Badgley diverted the dialogue by recalling when he met Grande’s mom, leading to a dialog about all issues macabre, gothic, and horror-related.
“I used to be infatuated with serial killers after I was youthful,” Grande famous.
Whereas the hosts of Podcrushed principally laughed off Grande’s feedback, the household of Tony Hughes, considered one of Dahmer’s victims, didn’t have the identical response.
“To me, it looks as if she’s sick in her thoughts,” Hughes’ mom, Shirley, commented to TMZ. “It’s not fancy or humorous to say you’d have needed to do dinner with him. It’s additionally not one thing it is best to say to younger individuals, which she says she did.” Dahmer murdered 17 individuals between the late ’70s and early ’90s, principally homosexual males and boys of coloration.
Elsewhere within the dialog, Grande famous that her fascination with the killer got here previous to Netflix’s dramatization of his crimes, The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which additionally didn’t sit well with families of victims.
Watch half 2 of Podcrushed episode beneath, or bounce to half-hour in to listen to Grande’s feedback about Dahmer.