Ariana Grande Is ‘Disheartened’ After Elvira Calls Her Out for Rude Encounter, Explains a Different Side of the Story

Ariana Grande is explaining how she remembers an encounter with Elvira after the Mistress of the Dark called out the pop star for an unpleasant experience.

In a viral video circulating on YouTube and TikTok from a recent event, the actress, born Cassandra Peterson, said one of her worst celebrity encounters was with Grande after the singer and her family attended one of Elvira’s shows. “I’ll tell you briefly… she came and she brought 20 guests, so she wanted 20, 21 tickets,” she recalled. “We’re like, ‘Okay,’ and we give her the tickets. She comes backstage and she asks if I could take pictures with all of her friends and relatives she brought.”

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She continued, “I take a picture with every single one of them. I sign autographs for every single one of them. Then I say to her, ‘Can we take a photo together?’ She goes, ‘Nah, I don’t really do that.'”

Elvira concluded but noting with a laugh that while her friends and family stayed through the show, Grande left beforehand.

However, when Elvira shared an article about the encounter to Instagram, Grande apologized and explained her side of the story in the comments section. “I’m so disheartened to see this,” she wrote. “I actually don’t even remember getting the chance to meet you because I had an anxiety attack and to my memory, left before the rest of my family (this was around 7 years ago and at the time I was really not great with being in public crowds or loud places)… but if I’m misremembering this moment, I sincerely apologize for offending you so.”

She added in her comment, “Thank you for being so nice to my mom, she told me how lovely you were (she might have different feelings about that now but I’ll talk to her… clearly, we all have our days!)
sending love always. You’ll always be our queen of halloween!”

See Grande’s comment under Elvira’s post here.

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