Ariana Grande’s latest remark about Jeffrey Dahmer isn’t sitting properly with the household of one among his victims.
The “Boyfriend” singer landed some moderately condemnatory remarks on Thursday from the household of Tony Hughes, a deaf, nonverbal man murdered by the late serial killer in 1991, as Grande divulged final week that she’d invite Dahmer for dinner if she might.
“To me, it seems like she’s sick in her mind,” the sufferer’s mom, Shirley Hughes, instructed TMZ on Thursday. “It’s not fancy or funny to say you would have wanted to do dinner with him. It’s also not something you should say to young people, which she says she did.”
Grande admitted as a lot final Monday on Penn Badgley’s “Podcrushed” podcast. The 31-year-old Grammy winner, who recalled being at a Nickelodeon fan conference the place a baby requested about her dream dinner visitor, laughed whereas telling her story.
“I was like, ‘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,’” she mentioned. “The parents were like, ‘We’ll explain it later, sweetie.’”
Shirley instructed TMZ she needs Grande to know how hurtful her feedback have been, and additional famous that she and different victims’ households really feel real ache every time Dahmer is talked about.
The sufferer’s sister, Barbara Hughes-Holt, added that Grande’s comment glamorizes the infamous serial killer: “Unfortunately, until it happens to her and her family, she just doesn’t know what we have been through.”
HuffPost has reached out to representatives for Grande for remark.
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Shirley Hughes beforehand criticized the Golden Globes when Evan Peters, who portrayed the serial killer in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix sequence “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” gained the award for finest actor in a restricted or anthology sequence or tv movie in 2023.
“It’s a shame that people can take our tragedy and make money,” she instructed TMZ on the time. “The victims never saw a cent. We go through these emotions every day.”
“I don’t see how they can do that,” Shirley Hughes instructed The Guardian in 2022 in regards to the Netflix sequence. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there.”
Dahmer, also called the “Milwaukee Cannibal,” killed 17 individuals between 1978 and 1991. He was convicted on 15 counts of homicide and sentenced in 1992 to fifteen life phrases in jail, however was overwhelmed to loss of life in 1994 whereas incarcerated on the Columbia Correctional Establishment in Portage, Wisconsin.
