Ariana Grande shares her grandma’s hilarious reaction to her brother Frankie’s coming out
Ariana Grande has shared a story about her brother, Frankie’s coming out. (Getty)
Ariana Grande has shared a story about her brother, Frankie's coming out. (Getty)
Ariana Grande has shared her grandma’s reaction to when the singer’s brother, Frankie, came out as gay, and it’ll tickle you this Thursday (20 November) morning.
The Wicked: For Good star stopped by Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast recently where she talked all things Wicked, her career, and her life.
One of the stories she shared centred on her grandmother, Marjorie ‘Nonna’ Grande, who passed away earlier this year aged 99. Grande qualified the story was her favourite about her grandmother, who she said was “so funny,” and her brother (Frankie Grande) coming out as gay.
“He came out to us and my first question was, ‘Do have a boyfriend? Who is he? I want to meet him’,” the “Break Free singer said of her personal response.
“And Nonna was just trying to figure it out,” she continued adding the Grande matriarch was “very accepting, very loving, very celebratory.”
Grande explained that Frankie previously had girlfriends, which was probably what was on her Nonna’s mind at the time.
“So she goes, ‘Frankie? Have you seen a pair of breasts?'” Grande said in an imitation of her Nonna. “And he was like, ‘Yeah, Nonna, I’ve seen breasts’. And she goes, ‘Didn’t do anything for you?’ He was like, ‘No. Nonna. no.'”
Grande’s Nonna then came out with, “‘Well, you’re gay.” Grande also said that her Nonna had just wanted to check Frankie was sure and that nothing was meant by it. “It was just so funny,” she added.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Grande discussed her music career and the prospect of her 2026 Eternal Sunshine tour being a “last hurrah” for “a long, long, long, long time.”
Grande discussed more of her acting, including the recently wrapped Focker-in-Law, the fourth instalment of the Meet the Parents franchise.
Wicked: For Good, in cinemas on Friday (21 November), sees Grande reprise her role as Glinda in the sequel to 2024’s Wicked.
Watch Grande’s full interview on the Good Hang podcast below.
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