Ariana Grande Wasted No Time Defending Herself From Elvira’s Confession About Their Meeting

You know the expression ‘never meet your heroes‘? So, while it’s essentially advice to avoid getting disappointed when you meet someone you look up to, it’s also a saying most celebrities can’t totally follow. After all, celebrities meet famous people they admire left and right. And, of course, some of these meetings don’t go according to plan.

In a recent Q&A session, the Queen of Halloween Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson, opened up about her lackluster first meeting with Ariana Grande.

Elvira started out her story by saying that Grande’s team reached about out wanting to attend a show of hers along with 20 other guests. “We gave her the tickets and she comes backstage and she asks if I can take pictures with all of her friends and relatives she brought,” she remembered, per Entertainment Weekly. “I take a picture with every single one of them, I sign autographs for every single one of them.”

Elvira then looked at Grande and asked for a picture with her. “She goes, ‘No, I don’t really do that,'” she remembered, mimicking her voice.

To make matters even worse, the Wicked star reportedly “left before my show started.” “All her relatives stayed, and she took off,” Elvira remembered. If you ask us, it doesn’t get much worse than that!

But, nevertheless, Grande spared no time before speaking up for herself in Elvira’s Instagram comments.

“I’m so disheartened to see this,” the “God Is a Woman” singer 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.”

In addition to a sincere apology, Grande also thanked Elvira for her generosity at the time. “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!)” she wrote. “Sending love always. ♡ you’ll always be our queen of Halloween!”

From the looks of it, while Grande didn’t appreciate getting her name dragged through the mud, she has no bad blood with Elvira and wanted to send an olive branch instead. Kudos to Grande for not meeting hostility with hostility and providing a lending hand instead. No one’s perfect all the time, after all!

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