Grande began singing at the age of eight and made her name as a teenage actress in Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious and its spin-off, Sam & Cat.<\/p>\n
Since releasing her debut single in 2011, she has scored 10 US number one hits and earned 20 Grammy Award nominations, winning three times.<\/p>\n
She has also made a successful move into acting, earning an Oscar nomination in 2025 for Wicked.<\/p>\n
But she has also experienced some difficult times.<\/p>\n
In 2017, 22 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside her concert at Manchester Arena.<\/p>\n
The following year, she said<\/a> she was dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that she wanted to “not be afraid”<\/a> but added: “The truth is, it’s scary. It’s scary going anywhere. You look at places differently.”<\/p>\n When her ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller, died in 2018, she later spoke about her “all-consuming” grief.<\/p>\n Her relationships and break-ups have never been far from the headlines, including with comedian Pete Davidson, estate agent Dalton Gomez, her married Wicked co-star Ethan Slater, and former backing dancer Ricky Alvarez.<\/p>\n In another new song, Oh Well, she says an unnamed ex or exes can “all go to hell”.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, she has also spoken about having depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and has called for mandatory therapy for child stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grande began singing at the age of eight and made her name as a teenage actress in Nickelodeon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}