Pop star Ariana Grande has broken her silence over a controversial joke made by her fiancé Pete Davidson about the terrorist bombing which saw 22 people killed at her concert in Manchester Arena last year.
Davidson, a comedian on Saturday Night Live, joked about the terror attack five months after the incident, saying Ariana must have realised how famous she’d become because "Britney Spears didn’t have a terrorist attack".
Following his whirlwind engagement to Grande, his comments have resurfaced in recent weeks and Grande responded on Twitter on Thursday.
Ariana Grande speaks about fiancé Pete Davidson’s controversial Manchester joke: "this has been v tough & conflicting on my heart... I of course didn’t find it funny." pic.twitter.com/q17e5OLTSp
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She wrote: ‘This has been v tough & conflicting on my heart. He uses comedy to help ppl feel better ab how f-ed up things in this world are, we all deal w trauma differently. I of course didn’t find it funny. It was months ago & his intention wasn’t/is never malicious but it was unfortunate [sic].’
A spokesperson for Davidson, whose firefighter father died on 9/11, recently defended the joke, telling Metro.co.uk: ‘He is a comedian. ‘No subject is off limits and that includes jokes about his father and 9/11.’
