When you think about your dream dinner guest, you might imagine an icon, a late family member, or a historical figure.
But for Ariana Grande, it's Jeffrey Dahmer.
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"I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger," Ariana confessed on the Podcrushed podcast on Monday.
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She told the hosts, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin, that she previously revealed this information during a Q&A with "young fans."
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"It was in between me being Cat [on Sam & Cat] and pop stuff," Ariana said, "so it was like a younger group, and they were with parents, and someone said, 'If you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?'"
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"I was like, 'Oh, you're so cute,'" she continued, remembering she asked their parents if it would be OK to answer truthfully. "They were like, 'Sure, what’s the answer?' and I was like, 'I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty fascinating.'"
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"I think I would have loved to have met him," she said, smiling. "You know, maybe with a third party or someone involved. But I have questions."
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While Sophie and Nava laughed, people online didn't find it funny.
"We are not joking about a serial killer who murdered with impunity because the police did not care about black men and gay men. Kindly f*** off!" one redditor wrote.
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"Unless the question is 'which serial killer would you have dinner with' and you have a gun to your head there’s no damn reason to say this," another commented in part.
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Someone else said Ariana's comments were "vile" and "horribly offensive" to the families of Dahmer's victims.
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So far, Ariana hasn't addressed the criticism, but we'll let you know if she does. Until then, you can view her comments here around the 30:50 mark.
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