After TIME selected Ariana Grande as one of its "Next Generation Leaders," the pop-star opened up to the magazine about the horrific 2017 Manchester attack, saying that it will take "forever" to process the pain.
โMusic is supposed to be the safest thing in the world,โ Grande told Sam Lansky. โI think thatโs why itโs still so heavy on my heart every single day. I wish there was more that I could fix," she continued. "You think with time itโll become easier to talk about. Or youโll make peace with it. But every day I wait for that peace to come and itโs still very painful.โ
Read more of the interview -- including Scooter Braun's recollection of the immediate aftermath -- by clicking the link below.
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