Jameela Jamil Says Ariana Grande Is “Possibly Dying Right In Front Of Us” and Blames Her Team for the Corseted Petal Video
Ariana Grande will step away from public life after her tour ends September 1, her team says, citing relentless scrutiny of her body — days after Jameela Jamil called out the singer’s team over her corseted Petal video.
Two days after Jamil’s comment, Grande‘s team announced she’s stepping away from public life once her tour ends September 1. Her rep says the “endless, ongoing public scrutiny” of her body is why she’s pulling back.
Grande will step back from visibility after her tour wraps on September 1, her rep announced Sunday, citing the “endless, ongoing public scrutiny” of her appearance. That came two days after she released her album Petal and the title track’s video.
Jamil, who has spoken about her own eating disorder, took aim at Grande’s team in an Instagram comment. “This outfit is designed to accentuate the thinness for discourse,” she wrote. “Her team are thoroughly irresponsible for not guiding her away from this deeply damaging image for her young fans to see so glamorised.”
In now-deleted Instagram Stories, she laid out the bind. “If we comment on her body, we could harm her mental health, which would be awful, and nobody wants that. If we don’t comment on her body, we run the risk of normalising that image to hundreds of millions of teenage girls, kids and even impressionable adults.” She claimed recent images of Grande were “flooding pro-anorexia websites.”
Grande’s rep insists she’s happy and healthy on tour, which closes with three shows in Chicago and a 10-night residency at London’s O2 Arena. As part of the step back, Grande has withdrawn from a London production of Sunday in the Park with George next summer, where she was set to star alongside Wicked co-star Jonathan Bailey.
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