Ariana Grande Groped at Aretha Franklin's Funeral!

[DioneTheDiabolist]

The Bishop who celebrated Aretha Franklin's funeral "apologises".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45381687

What a disgusting man. How dare he disrespect Ariana and Aretha this way.

I saw this on Yahoo. What disturbed me more were the comments! All along the lines of not a big deal, it's because she's small and he's tall, he wasn't doing it deliberately, she's attention seeking, look at what she's wearing etc etc. I had to stop reading it made me so angry.

Utterly disgraceful. No one accidently grabs a boob like that, it was completely deliberate and very public. Really feel for Arianna.

Really terrible. She looks so uncomfortable.

Plus his Taco Bell joke. He then apologised to Ariana and the wider "Hispanic community". She's Italian-American, not Hispanic

There's no way on this earth that it was accidental. Disgusting creature. I hope she sues him.

This is terrible, Ariana should have given him a good shove and belted out the song Think! in memory of Aretha.

It didn't happen because of AG's height or frock. It happened because the 60yo bishop decided to cop a feel of a young, attractive woman at the funeral of an older member of his congregation.

I'd put money on it not being the first time he's pulled a stunt like this.

It was utterly disgusting. And I can’t bear to read any more of the online comments on articles about it because it’s just horrific to listen to people’s twisted views about it.

Agree AppleKatie, to see how the masses think about things like this, that are abhorrent, is frightening. No wonder so many women don't speak up when they are assulted.

Bloody hell. A man grabs a fistful of a woman's breast but it's her fault because of what she wore or because she's not 7 foot tall.

YANBU OP. It's plain as day!

He was disgusting- she looked so uncomfortable and his Taco Bell comment was unacceptable. Wanker.

Regardless of Ariana's dress or height..that grab is not accidental. You don't squeeze a breast and think "oh that's a really flabby rib I've got a hold of".

Nah mate that's not on!

On the video clip he's digging his fingertips in there. He knows his hand is on her breast. Whilst chatting about being old and his 20 year old daughter. Wtf?

It is sickening. I feel so sorry for AG, she's at AF's funeral, in front of a lot of people and TV cameras and the Celebrant is grabbing her breast. What do you do in that moment?

How dare he claim to be a friend of AF? He's used her funeral as an opportunity to grope a much younger woman.

I haven't seen the video EnidButton. Do you have a link?

@DioneTheDiabolist it's on one of the quoted twitter accounts in the article you posted. He digs his fingers in and "massages" several times. It's no mistake.

mobile.twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1035683239912976386/video/1

Dunno if it will work.

Oh my goodness! It’s a proper grope. Watch the video, after he jokes around, he gives her a proper squeeze. How awful. No respect. And at Aretha Franklin’s very public and televised funeral. What a huge a-hole! I’ll find the video again and try to link it.

Rebel your link works. Thanks for posting. God how awful. That’s just so tacky.

Remember Louis CK's routine about how men always know if they've touched a tit. Even if it's just their elbow through shirt and jacket and coat, and her coat, jacket, shirt, and bra, their elbows know when they've grazed a tit.

(googleable, but i won't link to it)

Thank you for the link Rebel. Poor Ariana, she just looks so trapped and uncomfortable.

The full one in the Sun is even more awful. He gives her an actual hug and then grabs her again,in the same position.
It shows them walking up at the beginning with his hand on her breast too.
Poor woman... can't even imagine having to stand there being groped and having to play nice in front of all those people and the camera.

It takes a "special" kind of man to be so public with his groping.

It takes a "special" kind of man to be so public with his groping.

I'll say! How the fuck did he think no one would notice? She was really squirming away from him. It was so unpleasant to watch.

Unbefuckinglievable. At a funeral for God’s sake. How utterly disgusting.

Sorry Dione missed you asking for a link.

Thing is, if he thinks it's fine to do that when thousands of people are watching online, on the rolling news, two ex presidents, a huge congregation and knowing it's being filmed and will be played back time and time again, then wtf does he think is fine when no-one is watching? And I get the impression he does think it's fine. Maybe because of his job, and he seems very charismatic, people have never said anything before. Hope he can see why it's bloody wrong now. Women are not there for the benefit of men. No matter what they look like, dress like or do for a living. Get your bloody hands off.

TBH I think he probably gets off on this kind of stuff. Doing it in public,no one being able to stop him or willing to pull him up on it etc. The incident with Ariana was probably a culmination of years of similar behaviour.
Even more thrilling that as bad as it was he got off with an apology and "it's all a misunderstanding ".

I thought it was also disrespectful to make that joke about her name. Its not just that its rude to joke about someone's name but it sounds like he is saying he has never heard of her. She is quite well known and at the funeral of a famous singer you would think the pastor would have some knowledge of the music industry.