She continued: \u201cWe\u2019ve searched every other flight, overnight, early morning, connecting flights, commercial and also private options and absolutely nothing was available or possible that would get us there in time.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven in attempting a private option, there is a permit necessary in order to fly from here that takes time to attain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grande urged her fans to pass on their love to her \u201cincredible castmates\u201d as she apologised for the situation.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI am so heartbroken that I\u2019m unable to be there with you all. We sincerely tried everything we could and I apologised from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease shower my incredible castmates with all of the love that I wish I could be showering you with and have the most beautiful celebration.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd again, I am so, so very sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grande recently admitted she almost quit music after 2020\u2019s Positions before filming 2024\u2019s Wicked and rediscovering her \u201cspark\u201d for writing and singing.<\/p>\n
Appearing on Shut Up Evan with Evan Ross Katz, she said: \u201c[Playing Glinda] has done so much for Ariana. It has totally rearranged everything about my relationship to creating, you know. I didn\u2019t think I was going to make an album ever again when I left for London.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was kind of my secret, but I didn\u2019t think I was going to, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Thank U, Next hitmaker says Glinda\u2019s strong \u201cself-belief\u201d inspired her return to music, which came last year with Eternal Sunshine.<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cSo I learned a lot from her as a character who learns so much over the course of these two films and has to look at herself in the mirror constantly and sort of peel away at the pieces of her that don\u2019t feel aligned. So I do think that I was kind of forced to do that alongside her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She continued: \u201cWe\u2019ve searched every other flight, overnight, early morning, connecting flights, commercial and also private options and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27605,82996,17517,27245,575,33759,33452,156,70,2082,679,6101,83527,1452,6501,111,139,69,16083,3048,61,74302],"class_list":["post-117967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-appearance","tag-ariana","tag-because","tag-beyond","tag-brazil","tag-cancel","tag-devastated","tag-entertainment","tag-flight","tag-for","tag-forced","tag-good","tag-grande","tag-issues","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-premiere","tag-said","tag-to","tag-wicked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}