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To think there's something really off about this woman?

213 replies

BelatrixLestrange · 17/11/2025 18:22

Sorry for the Daily Fail link, but this is the third video I've seen over as many weeks with this woman acting oddly possessive over Arianna.

AIBU to think her behaviour is off?

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo cause a stir with ANOTHER 'ridiculous' red carpet moment | Daily Mail Online https://share.google/sqbD37a6vMwwNNn8m

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo cause stir with red carpet stunt

The Wicked: For Good co-stars have had multiple 'bizarre' red carpet exchanges when promoting the first Wicked film, with yet another clip now resurfacing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15297173/Ariana-Grande-Cynthia-Erivo-red-carpet-necklace.html

OP posts:
AliceMaforethought · 17/11/2025 22:31

They are both very weird. I have no time for Ariana at all, she is a serial homewrecker and I can't stand the stupid baby voice and the constant pouting. Cynthia looked better before she started Wicked, she used to be very strong and muscular, instead of frail and sickly looking.

Bunnycat101 · 17/11/2025 22:32

It isn’t surprising that Ariana struggles with her mental health post Manchester and I can see there being a bit of a protector thing going on with Cynthia but the two of them plus Michelle now scream peer pressured eating disorder. They all look so fragile and thin and it does seem like the filming or something behind the scenes is fuelling some really disordered eating.

DollydaydreamTheThird · 17/11/2025 22:38

I don't give a shit how weird they are acting. I watched them once in an interview and found it cringeworthy as they were so fake. The thing that makes me immensely grateful I don't have any girls is the fact that film companies think it is ok to put anorexic/bullemic actresses on such a massive platform. It is disgusting. I have sympathy for the actresses because it is an illness but the ones that choose to normalise this extremely thin look want sacking. It's like 90s heroin chic is back and I'm no fan of Kate Moss either. It is just so fucking irresponsible, it makes me so so angry. I say I'm grateful I don't have girls but this stuff affects boys too. You can literally see Ariana's ribs in the advert I saw.

LemaxObsessive · 17/11/2025 22:46

I saw a video of Ariana on the red carpet saying she’d been to a clinic to have her memory erased….. 🤨

BatshitOutofHell · 17/11/2025 22:50

What did she do? I haven't read the article as I refuse to read the Daily Fail.

User5306921 · 17/11/2025 22:59

Cynthia is obviously trying to get the limelight.

I thought the Wicked film was one of the worst I've seen in a long time (and I have seen some baaaad children's films). DH can be dragged along by DC for the second one.

BlazenWeights · 17/11/2025 23:10

Say her name!!! So rude OP

BatshitOutofHell · 17/11/2025 23:14

LemaxObsessive · 17/11/2025 22:46

I saw a video of Ariana on the red carpet saying she’d been to a clinic to have her memory erased….. 🤨

That is really sad.

Terrytheweasel · 17/11/2025 23:25

I think it’s connected to the Manchester bombings personally. I can’t even watch the adverts for wicked - the weird vibe and thinness is giving me the ick big time. She’s been through so much but she shouldn’t have been allowed to feature in the film until she recovers from her eating disorder.

MarthaBeach · 17/11/2025 23:28

The necklace clip is OLD NEWS from a year ago. I thought Cynthia Erivo was awesome on the Singapore red carpet this week when she physically pushed a man (who had jumped the barrier) away from her friend, and was way ahead of the security guards! The man is a tiktok arsehole who makes a living out of disrupting events, I'm glad he was put in prison by the Singaporean authorities.

I too thought Ariane looked frail in the publicity last year, but part of that is her hair and eyebrows being dyed blonde for Wicked, which make her look weird and other-worldly.

Yes Cynthia is quite 'extra' as a personality it seems, but that's hardly unusual for an actor and singer. She is incredibly talented.

soundsys · 17/11/2025 23:41

They look coked up tbh. In that clip, I mean, although as others have said it is an old one. Just that fidgeting, having to get something just right (the necklace) that doesn't look like anything. Plus the thinness.

CareerChange24 · 17/11/2025 23:46

BelatrixLestrange · 17/11/2025 20:49

Of course I read it. Otherwise where would I have got the link from? I still feel the need to apologise for its existence because it's a trash paper. And what?

A trash paper. Definitely. The irony that this thread is trash talking other women who you don’t know. This thread is nasty and unnecessary

BatshitOutofHell · 17/11/2025 23:54

They are both incredibly talented but fame and fortune r have gone to their heads.

FrodoBiggins · 17/11/2025 23:59

BlueBarnOwl · 17/11/2025 19:03

Michelle O:

She looks healthy and radiant, as always

2021x · 17/11/2025 23:59

I think its time the PR machine needs to recognise Arianna's fragility as it is overshadowing the Wicked PR.

I suspect that Cynthia is just (over) reacting to that.

TheCheekySloth · 18/11/2025 00:31

Its not new news but they both need to stop taking skinny jabs.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 18/11/2025 00:33

It's an act. Anything for extra attention for the movie.

Harveysabrina · 18/11/2025 00:39

every interview or press interaction from the pair, from both this one and the last movie, is absolutely unhinged, very attention seeking and just so strange.

Ponoka7 · 18/11/2025 00:52

LemaxObsessive · 17/11/2025 22:46

I saw a video of Ariana on the red carpet saying she’d been to a clinic to have her memory erased….. 🤨

She was play acting her then new album. It was creative marketing and allowed for a lot of fan revisitation of her old work and fan fiction etc.
She's spoken at length about her MH struggles, she first started therapy before she became famous, at the age of eight because of her parents toxic relationship and bitter divorce. So has her brother, about his addictions and MH. In that industry, eating disorders go hand in hand with MH struggles. Plus she's naturally small, dances, so is going to easily look unwell.

Lampzade · 18/11/2025 03:33

FrodoBiggins · 17/11/2025 23:59

She looks healthy and radiant, as always

I think that Michelle Obama looks great with the weight loss .
Not sure if the weight loss is due to jabs ( as another poster suggested) or the death of her mother which she ( Michelle O) admitted has devastated her

Francestein · 18/11/2025 04:51

Well weird seems to work… it’s getting everyone talking about them.

Rubinia · 18/11/2025 06:55

Why are you calling her that woman? So weird and rude!! You clearly read the article.

heartofsunshine · 18/11/2025 07:09

Its all PR and they are working wonders for the coverage the film gets.

SlothMama14 · 18/11/2025 07:12

“That woman”. Wow. Micro aggression much?!

RocknRollBand · 18/11/2025 07:14

That woman and Ariana. Like you know her.

To me, it looks like something that they have decided to do. Let’s go to all of these promotional events together and be interviewed together and do the photos together. It’s a bit of a novelty.

Ariana Grande looks and sounds awful. She just used to be an ordinary confident and healthy woman.