{"id":470029,"date":"2026-05-27T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:26:13","slug":"cynthia-erivo-reveals-her-truth-about-friendship-with-ariana-grande-being-labeled-her-bodyguard-the-impact-singapore-had-on-oscars-campaign-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470029\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Reveals Her Truth About Friendship with Ariana Grande, Being Labeled Her &#8216;Bodyguard,&#8217; &#038; the Impact Singapore Had on Oscars Campaign &#8211; Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cynthia-erivo-variety-788x444.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande photo\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>Credit: Getty Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cynthia-erivo\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> is speaking out about her relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ariana-grande\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> and their infamous press tour appearances together promoting Wicked and Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know, there was a lot of press attention on the pair throughout their joint premieres and interviews they completed together.<\/p>\n<p>She also spoke about the impact of the Singapore premiere incident, where she was labeled Ariana\u2019s \u201cbodyguard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We gathered up all the biggest interview highlights about her friendship with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/wicked\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked<\/a> co-star, from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/legit\/features\/cynthia-erivo-surviving-wicked-texting-ariana-grande-1236757557\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to see what Cynthia Erivo said about her friendship with Ariana Grande\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cynthia-erivo\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Getty Images Cynthia Erivo is speaking out about her relationship with Ariana Grande and their infamous press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-470029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}