Ariana Grande mentioned she was “infatuated with serial killers” — and has receipts.
The “Into You” singer admitted to it when Penn Badgley, who performed a assassin on Netflix’s “You,” famous that she had solid each him and fellow actor Evan Peters — who famously portrayed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer — in two of her newest music movies.
“I knew someone was gonna say this,” Grande informed Badgley on his “Podcrushed” podcast, launched Monday. “Like, ‘Why the fuck? What is this pattern? Do we need to talk about this pattern here?’ Maybe there’s something to look at. No, I’m kidding.”
The Grammy winner wasn’t joking at a previous Q&A session “with young fans,” nonetheless, when a toddler inquired who her dream dinner visitor can be. Grande responsibly requested the dad and mom if she might “give the real answer,” earlier than delivering a real showstopper.
“And they were like, ‘Sure, I guess, what’s the answer?’” Grande recalled. “And I was like, ‘I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty fascinating. I think I would have loved to have met him. Y’know, maybe with a third party or someone involved. But I have questions.’”
“The parents were like, ‘We’ll explain it later, sweetie,’” she continued. “And I was like, ‘I’ll just sing ‘Problem’ and go home.’”
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Dahmer killed 17 folks between 1978 and 1991 and was convicted on 15 counts of homicide and sentenced in 1992 to fifteen life phrases in jail. The “Milwaukee Cannibal” had primarily focused Black low-income victims in Wisconsin — and famously ate a few of their our bodies.
He was in the end crushed to demise on Nov. 28, 1994, by a fellow inmate on the Columbia Correctional Establishment in Portage, Wisconsin, which served because the conclusion to Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” (2022), with Peters within the lead.
Badgley softened the seriousness of the topic by arguing Grande inherited her horror obsession from a mom who “loves Halloween” — who would probably camp her household round a hearth to inform spooky tales if TV didn’t exist.
“Yeah!” Grande agreed. “It’s the best.”