Today Ariana Grande dropped her four-part Dangerous Woman Diaries YouTube docuseries. The first part is available to everyone right now, but the three other parts are only available to YouTube Premium members and will be released to the public every week.
The Dangerous Woman Diaries follows Grande leading up to her Sweetener launch and during the last leg of her Dangerous Woman Tour. During the fourth part of the series, Grande opened up about the Manchester terrorist attack that took place at her Manchester concert on May 22, 2017.
Eight months after the attack Grande wrote a note about the attacks and shared it in the docuseries. She didn’t read the letter out loud, cards are held up with her letter written across them.
The letter in full reads:
“I’m writing to you this February 22, 2018.
It’s been eight months since the attack at our show at the Manchester Arena. It’s impossible to know where to start or to know what to say about this part. May 22, 2017, will leave me speechless and filled with questions for the rest of my life.
Music is an escape. Music is the safest thing I’ve ever known. Music — pop music, stan culture — is something that brings people together, introduces them t some of their best friends, and makes them feel like they can be themselves. It is comfort. It is fun. It is expression. It is happiness. It is the last thing that would ever harm someone. It is safe.
When something so opposite and so poisonous takes place in your world that is supposed to be everything but that…it is shocking and heartbreaking in a way that seems impossible to fully recover from.
The spirit of the people of Manchester, the families affected by the horrendous tragedy, and my fans around the world have permanently impacted all of us for the rest of our lives. Their love, strength, and unity showed me, my team, my dancers, band, and entire crew not to be defeated. To continue during the scariest and saddest of times. To not let hate win. But instead, over as loudly as possible, and to appreciate every moment.
The people of Manchester were able to change an event that portrayed the worst of humanity into one that portrayed the most beautiful of humanity. ‘Like a handprint on my heart’…I think of Manchester constantly and will carry this with me every day for the rest of my life.”
Watch the first episode of the Dangerous Woman Diaries below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll4PiBEWFvI
