"My heart, prayers, and deepest condolences are with the victims of the Manchester Attack
and their loved ones. There is nothing I or anyone can do to take away the pain you
are
feeling or to make this better,"
she began.
"However, I extend my hand and heart
and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need my help
in any way. The only thing we can do now is choose how we let this affect us and how
we live our lives from here on out."
"I am sorry for the pain and fear that you must be feeling and for the
trauma that you, too, must be experiencing. We will never be able to understand why
events like this take place because it is not in our nature, which is why we shouldn't
recoil. We will not quit or operate in fear.
We won't let this divide us. We won't let
hate win." "I don't want to go the rest of the year without being able to see and hold and uplift
my fans, the same way they continue to uplift me. Our response to this violence must be
to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live
more kindly and generously than we did before," she said.
"I'll be returning to the incredibly brave city of Manchester to spend time with my fans
and to have a benefit concert in honor of and to raise money for the victims and their
families," Grande revealed. "I want to thank my fellow musicians and friends for reaching
out to be a part of our expression of love for Manchester. I will have details to share
with you as soon as everything is confirmed."
"From the day we started putting the Dangerous Woman Tour together, I said that this
show, more than anything else, was intended to be a safe space for my fans. A place
for them to escape, to celebrate, to heal, to feel safe and to be themselves.
To meet
their friends they've made online. To express themselves," she recalled, declaring, "This will
not change that." "When you look into the audience at my shows, you see a beautiful,
diverse, pure, happy crowd. Thousands of people , incredibly different, all there for the
same reason, music." "Music is something that everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to
bring us together, to make us happy. So that is what it will continue to do for us,"
Grande promised her fans.
"We will continue in honor of the ones we lost, their loved
ones, my fans, and all affected by this tragedy. They will be on my mind and in my
heart every day and I will think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life."
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