Ariana Grande is ready to talk about the allegations from Quiet on Set.
Grande didn’t participate in the Discovery docuseries—which detailed allegations of sexual harassment and assault, racism, and misogyny behind the scenes of some of Nickelodeon’s most popular kids’ shows—but clips of Grande from her time at the network were featured heavily. At the time of the series’ release, Grande didn’t comment on the documentary or her own experiences. Now she’s opening up for the first time.
On June 12, Grande said on Penn Badgley’s Podcrushed podcast, “I’m still, in real time, reprocessing my relationship to it.
“A lot of people don’t have the support that they need to get through performing at that level at such a young age, but also dealing with some of the things that the survivors who have come forward…there’s not a word for how devastating that is to hear.”
Grande acknowledged that child stars could be influenced by the reactions of adults without fully understanding what was going on. “There’s a strange pattern that occurs where it’s really taken advantage of how much it means to the young performer to get a laugh from Video Village,” she said. “You’re like, ‘Oh shit, I’m doing something great,’ like, ‘This is funny. This is fun.’” In this way, Grande says the Victorious cast became convinced by the adults that their mature humor and innuendos “was like the cool thing about us.” She added, “Now, looking back on some of the clips I’m like, ‘That’s…damn, really?’”
Some of the most controversial clips of Ariana Grande included in Quiet on Set were from the show’s web series but didn’t air on the main show. “The things that weren’t approved for the network were snuck on to…our website or whatever it was, and that is another discovery,” she said. “But I’m going into it…I guess I’m upset.”
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