Lately the little girl behind the powerhouse vocals that brought us “Problem” and “Bang, Bang” has gotten a bad rap. A few weeks ago, someone on Thought Catalog posted an essay documenting a pretty traumatic interaction with Ariana Grande and super-fan. Basically, at one point Grande was super cute and wonderful and now, as the essay states, she refuses to be photographed from her right side. She’s been reportedly hard to work with on set.
So it’s a little interesting that E! Host Giuliana Rancic decided to pull out her own Grande story. She said:
“I think she does have a little bit of a diva thing going on, I don’t know if that’s just part of the image she wants out there, like ‘I’m a young Mariah, I’m a diva,’ because I remember, I think it was at the AMAs, she came up on the platform, and normally I stand on this side [her left side] to the camera — I had to fight 13 years to get this side to the camera, it’s my good side, but I fought 13 years for this, OK? Little Ariana comes over, I feel like BING, elbow in my side, I’m like ‘what’s going on?’ and they push me to the other side. So I had to be on my ugly side. But I felt like a little bit of a, you know it was like ‘you either get on the other side or we don’t do an interview,’ and I just felt like it’s one thing if it’s Mariah, you know, I’ll get on any side, I’ll bend down, I’ll climb a ladder, whatever it takes to get Mariah to do an interview. But when you’re new on the block, when you’re trying to earn your stripes, you’re young, you just gotta do what you gotta do, try to get a great reputation, try to go overboard to please people.”
This article on Buzzfeed also chronicles a long list of diva-like accusations from the young singer. It starts with the accusations that the Nickelodeon show Sam and Cat was cancelled because of a feud between Grande and Jeanette McCurdy.
Sidenote: I watch Big Brother religiously and her brother, who is a house guest on the show, also seems like quite the diva.
What do you think? Is this little girl as big of a diva as she’s made out to be?
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Is Ariana Grande A Grande Diva?
