Ariana Grande Vows to Return to Manchester After Bombing: 'We Won't Let Hate Win'
Just four days after a deadly bombing following her
concert in Manchester, England, Ariana Grande took to Twitter
to share a lengthy letter, reassuring fans that she'll return to the city and
that "we won't let hate win."
Grande's letter is her first personal statement since a short tweet following the
attack, in which she said she was "broken" by the violence, which left 22
dead and 59 injured.
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) May 26, 2017
While Grande has postponed her European
tour dates through June 5, she makes clear in her letter that she will not
be off the stage forever. "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," she writes.
Read her full post below:
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. 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 have been thinking of my fans, and of you all, non stop over the past week.
The way you have handled all of this has been more inspiring and made me more
proud than you'll ever now. The compassion, kindness, love, strength and oneness
that you've shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the
heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened
Monday.
YOU are the opposite.
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.
I'll be returning to the incredibly brave city of Manchester to spend time
with my fans and 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 fell safe and to be
themselves. To meet their friends they've made online. To express
themselves.
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.
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 everyday and I will think of them
with everything I do for the rest of my life.
Ari.
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