Ariana Grande Explains Why She Would Eat With Jeffrey Dahmer When She Was Younger

Ariana Grande opened up about the past Jeffrey Dahmer comment she made to a young fan.

In a recent episode of "Popcrushed," Grande spoke candidly about the time she told her fan that her dream dinner date was with the serial killer.

"I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger," she told Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari, in the podcast.

The "7 rings" singer, now 30, revealed that the revelation happened during a Q&A with young fans years ago.

"It was in between me being Cat [in Nickelodeon's Sam & Cat] and pop stuff, so it was like a younger group, and they were with parents, and someone said. 'If you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?'" she revealed, adding, "I was like, 'Oh, you're so cute. Mom and Dad, is it OK if I give the real answer?' And they were like 'Sure, what's the answer?' and I was like, 'I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty fascinating."

According to Grande, she would have loved to have met Dahmer with someone involved because she had many questions.

Dahmer's story was presented in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. The infamous serial killer committed his first murder in 1978 weeks after graduating from high school. The killings continued in the years thereafter, with the number of murdered boys reaching 17 counts by 1991.

Dahmer was only caught after Tracy Edwards was able to escape by punching the murderer. He bumped into two Milwaukee police officers, whom he led back to the apartment.

The authorities found Polaroid pictures of human bodies showing stages of dismemberment in one of Dahmer's drawers. The suspect tried to flee, but he was finally arrested afterward.

Dahmer later penned a detailed confession on how he killed the 17 men. He was charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide in July 1991 before facing eight more murder charges and three more in August of the same year.

He initially pleaded "innocent and innocent by reason of mental disease" before changing it to "guilty but insane." After the trial, he was ruled to be sane and not suffering from a mental disorder.

Dahmer died after a fellow prisoner bludgeoned him to death with a metal bar on November 28, 1994.

Grande previously worked with Evan Peters, who played the role of the killer in the hair-raising Netflix series, in her music video for "we can't be friends."

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