The “Thank U, Next” singer and star of Wicked is mid-way through a worldwide arena tour; has just released a new single, and was due to debut on the West End next year. Yet over the weekend, a representative for Ariana Grande unexpectedly announced a change to her schedule. Grande, 33, “will be taking a step back from visibility” when her Eternal Sunshine tour ends in London on 1st September owing to “endless, ongoing public scrutiny.”
The representative didn’t specify the nature of this scrutiny, but said her tour would close out “on a high note, both healthily and happily.” A source reiterated to People magazine that Grande “performs healthily and successfully at a very high level night after night” – appearing to reinforce that it is the speculation over her appearance that is driving her out of the spotlight.
The announcement is further proof that Grande is no longer willing to tolerate the vitriol of her critics. On Friday, she released the music video for her latest single, “Petal” – a two-fingered salute to those seeking to tear her down. Playing a pearl-clad actress who, at an audition, gets picked apart by a panel of naysayers, and takes her revenge chainsaw massacre-style, later emerging from the room covered in blood.
It’s a markedly gory scene for the syrupy-voiced Grande. Yet having repeatedly spoken out about the ill effects of public commentary on her body, something appears to have snapped. In 2023, with speculation about her size mounting, she posted a TikTok video decrying those who felt the need to share their views.
“I don’t do this often, I don’t like it, I’m not good at it,” she says in the clip. “But I just wanted to address concerns about my body and talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and to be paid such close attention to.”
Alluding to her weight loss, she said that “the body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,” describing how a combination of being on antidepressants, alcohol and eating poorly were going on behind closed doors “at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy.” The video quickly trended, and has since gained 18 million likes.
Despite the video’s reach, however, it failed to produce the desired effect. During the press tour for Wicked in 2024, she told a journalist that, having been “a specimen in a petri dish” since the age of 16, “I’ve heard every version of it, of what’s wrong with me. And then you fix it and then it’s wrong for different reasons. But that’s everything. Even the simplest thing like your appearance.” It was hard to protect herself “from that noise,” she said, holding back tears during the interview. ”It’s something that is uncomfortable no matter what scale you’re experiencing it on.” That pressure, by then a fixture for some 15 years, was “not invited… no one has the right to say s**t.”
Again, little heed appeared to be taken in its aftermath, with an endless stream of online commentary expressing “concern” for her tiny frame. In 2025, while promoting the Wicked sequel, Grande reposted clips from that interview on her Instagram with the caption: “Resharing this from last year as a loving reminder to all.”
Grande grew up in an “eccentric and weird and loud and Italian” family in Florida, beginning her stage career at the tail-end of the Noughties, aged 14, when she appeared in Thirteen: the Musical. Landing a lead role in Victorious on Nickelodeon two years later cemented her rise, with the 2013 release of her debut album, Yours Truly, setting her on a path to becoming one of the biggest female artists of her generation.
Ariana Grande in her music video for ‘Petal’ ( Screen grab: YouTube)Grande has since released six albums, collected three Grammys and a Brit Award, and on one occasion in 2019 occupied the top three in the music chart – an accolade only achieved previously by the Beatles. Her turn in the Wicked films have led to an Oscar nomination and helped her to amass Arianators (the collective noun for her fans) so fervent she was at one stage the second-most followed person on Instagram. Her fame has, according to the site Celebrity Net Worth, earned Grande some $250 million.
But with these triumphs have come unthinkable tragedy. In 2017, Grande had just finished her performance at Manchester Arena when a terrorist detonated a homemade explosive, killing 22 people, including seven children, and injuring more than 1,000. She threw a charity concert a few months later, which raised over £10 million for the families affected.
The attack, unsurprisingly, left a scar; 2018 offered little respite, either. In an interview with British Vogue that year, Grande admitted that she had been suffering from symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder ever since. “I don’t think one will ever know how to really, fully process it,” she said. “I don’t think I’ll ever know how to talk about it and not cry.” A few months later Mac Miller, her rapper ex-boyfriend from whom she’d split earlier that year, died of an accidental overdose.
She wrote her fifth album, Thank U, Next, in the fog of that (and the end of her quickfire engagement with comic Pete Davidson; she has since been married and divorced from luxury estate agent Dalton Gomez, and split from her Wicked co-star, Ethan Slater, earlier this year). But “I don’t remember those months of my life because I was a) so drunk and b) so sad. I don’t really remember how it started or how it finished,” Grande told Vogue of making the record. The grief, she said, had been “all-consuming.”
She described herself as “a person who’s been through a lot and doesn’t know what to say about any of it to myself, let alone the world. I see myself onstage as this perfectly polished, great-at-my-job entertainer, and then in situations like this I’m just this little basket-case puddle of figuring it out.” Laughing through tears she was, she said, “the luckiest girl in the world, and the unluckiest, for sure.”
Those words feel prescient now when, in the midst of what should have been a series of career highs – including starring in Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George opposite Wicked leading man Jonathan Bailey next year – Grande is set to remove herself from public view.
Opinion over her body – and how the public might react to it – has been firmly divided into two camps; those (including the likes of Halle Berry) who heed Grande’s own words spoken in that 2023 TikTok video: “If you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned [about someone’s body], whatever it is – healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, not sexy – we just shouldn’t.” And others who believe that, as a role model to millions of girls the world over, her frame is of “concern”, and represents a dangerous ideal. Jameela Jamil, this week said Ariana Grande is “possibly dying right in front of us”, and received swift backlash.
No doubt Grande will one day end her hiatus with another killer album that addresses what she’s been through. Whether that succeeds in quelling the inevitable speculation about her looks when she does, however, feels a less certain bet.
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