The household of one among Jeffrey Dahmer‘s victims is talking out, slamming Ariana Grande for as soon as saying she’d be thinking about having a sit down with the late serial killer.
ICYMI … the pop star’s gotten some backlash this week for a current podcast interview the place she recounted saying Dahmer — who killed and dismembered 17 males over a 13-year interval — was her dream dinner visitor.
6/17/24
Podcrushed
Ari says she’d shared that tidbit with a bunch of younger followers throughout a Q&A early in her profession.
That revelation doesn’t sit nicely with the family members of Tony Hughes — a deaf, non-verbal sufferer Dahmer focused and killed in 1991.
Shirley, Tony’s mom, tells TMZ … she hopes Ariana understands how hurtful her feedback are, noting the confession made her emotional.
She was additionally disturbed when Ariana laughed in the course of the podcast about her Dahmer fascination. Shirley desires the singer, and most people, to know she and different victims’ households expertise very actual ache any time Dahmer is introduced up.
She provides … “To me, it seems like she’s sick in her mind. It’s not fancy or funny to say you would have wanted to do dinner with him. It’s also not something you should say to young people, which she says she did.”
Shirley says she finds it troubling Ari did not appear to point out any empathy for the victims’ family members.
Tony’s sister, Barbara, shares an analogous sentiment … saying the feedback glamorize Dahmer, who was overwhelmed to loss of life in jail in 1994. She’d like to see Ariana apologize, so her followers know this is not proper.
Now, the fact is Ariana’s hardly the one particular person plugging in to true crime tales like Dahmer. The style’s an enormous moneymaker for TV, films, streaming providers and ebook publishers.
The truth is, Tony’s household was simply as outraged when the Netflix collection, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” got here out with Evan Peters enjoying the notorious cannibal.
Creator Ryan Murphy defended his venture on the time, saying they did a number of analysis and reached out to twenty victims’ households and pals, however by no means received a response.
Barbara summed up her response to Ariana, telling us “Unfortunately, until it happens to her and her family, she just doesn’t know what we have been through.”
