Ariana Grande said it's been 'devastating' to hear people come forward with stories of abuse from their time as Nickelodeon child stars.
, Grande did not mention the program by name, nor did she name or say anything specifically about Dan Schneider, the“A lot of people don’t have the support that they need to get through performing at that level at such a young age,” Grande said. “But also dealing with some of the things that the survivors who’ve come forward — there’s not a word for how devastating that is to hear about. I think the environment just needs to be made a lot safer all around.
Grande said she believed improving, if not mandating, access to mental heath services for child actors would be a great way to improve these environments, as well as making sure parents are “allowed to be wherever they want to be.” “Not only on kids sets, I think if anyone wants to do this, or music, or anything at the level of exposure that it means to be on TV or do music with a major label, or whatever — there should be in the contract something about therapy is mandatory twice a week, or thrice a week,” Grande said. Françoise Hardy, French Singer and International Sixties Icon, Dead at 80
Grande did say that the “beautiful thing” that came out of her time on Nickelodeon was getting to work so closely with her friend and co-star Elizabeth Gillies. “We were young performers who just wanted to do this with our lives more than anything, and we got to, and that was so beautiful,” she said. “I think we had some very special memories, and we feel so privileged to have been able to create those roles and be a part of something that was so special for a lot of young kids.
But she also later took a moment to reflect on and critique some of the material and jokes they were doing at that age. “Speaking specifically about our show, I think that was something that we were convinced was the cool thing about us, is that we pushed the envelope with our humor and the innuendos,” Grande said. “We were convinced as well that it was like the cool differentiation. And I don’t know.
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