The household of one among Jeffrey Dahmer‘s victims is talking out, slamming Ariana Grande for as soon as saying she’d be involved in having a sit down with the late serial killer.
ICYMI … the pop star’s gotten some backlash this week for a latest podcast interview the place she recounted saying Dahmer — who killed and dismembered 17 males over a 13-year interval — was her dream dinner visitor.
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Ari says she’d shared that tidbit with a gaggle of younger followers throughout a Q&A early in her profession.
That revelation doesn’t sit properly 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 through the podcast about her Dahmer fascination. Shirley needs 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 looks like she’s sick in her thoughts. It’s not fancy or humorous to say you’ll have wished to do dinner with him. It’s additionally not one thing it’s best to say to younger individuals, 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 identical sentiment … saying the feedback glamorize Dahmer, who was crushed to dying 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 individual plugging in to true crime tales like Dahmer. The style’s an enormous moneymaker for TV, films, streaming providers and e-book publishers.
In truth, Tony’s household was simply as outraged when the Netflix collection, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” got here out with Evan Peters taking part in the notorious cannibal.
Creator Ryan Murphy defended his venture on the time, saying they did a lot of analysis and reached out to twenty victims’ households and pals, however by no means acquired a response.
Barbara summed up her response to Ariana, telling us “Sadly, till it occurs to her and her household, she simply doesn’t know what we have now been by means of.”