Bowen Yang Says 'The Narrative Is Wrong' About His Friend Ariana Grande's Love Life

During Las Culturistas, Bowen spoken to the narrative surrounding Ariana Grande.

“I think, I can say, not autobiographical as an album, but she was very, very, very purposeful about the way people would be portrayed in this and the way she would portray herself in this and how it’s not a totally, ‘my hands are clean,’” she said.

“She could have absolutely put out an album that was like ‘I’m going to preserve and protect things about my own image’ or wrest the narrative from someone or the media or people in these situation,” he continued.

He also discussed the “puritanical” way that society is approaching marriage “in the discourse” surrounding Ariana.

“Everyones being like ‘the sanctity of marriage.’ Of course it is so much more complicated than that, but at the heart of the conversations that we’ve had in infidelity discourse with everybody. Because, I will also just say, the thing in ‘We Can’t Be Friends’ is like, the narrative is wrong. And she’s not even outwardly saying that, but the narrative has been incorrect, and people have even retracted things in these stories with no f—ing apology to the people who are involved.”

“I can tell you for a fact that what people out there seem to be clinging onto is incorrect,” he added, seemingly referring to her divorce from ex-husband Dalton Gomez and romance with Ethan Slater.

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