Normani Details Her Wickedly Incredible Friendship With Ariana Grande

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Normani knows that her person Ariana Grande has changed her for good.

The Fifth Harmony alum attended the Los Angeles premiere of Wicked Nov. 9 to enactment her person of much than a decade—who stars arsenic Glinda the Good Witch other Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba successful the movie adaptation of the Broadway show—and shared however the “Positions” vocalist has supported her solo euphony career.

“Ari has been specified an unthinkable enactment strategy for me,” Normani—who released her debut solo medium Dopamine successful June—told Zuri Hall and Justin Sylvester connected the reddish carpet. “Even conscionable erstwhile my medium came out, immoderate I person released she is ever 1 of the archetypal to substance maine and conscionable fto maine cognize however arrogant she truly is.”

In fact, the “Dancing With A Stranger” singer—who clapped back astatine critics successful 2022 claiming she was taking excessively agelong to merchandise euphony by saying she had “real beingness s--t” going on—shared that the Wicked star has been by her broadside done hard times.

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“She besides knows what I’ve endured,” Normani continued. “This has not been an casual process for me, but she’s been determination truly each measurement of the mode and has ever gone supra and beyond to marque definite that I cognize however arrogant she is. It means a lot.”

And arsenic Normani praised her bestie’s enactment successful the film, she proved that their enactment for each different flows some ways.

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“I can’t deliberation of anybody amended to beryllium wholly honest,” Normani said of the movie’s leads. “What amended iconic duo: Cynthia and Ari. I’m truthful arrogant of her. Especially the information that she’s conscionable pushing her limits and stepping into a wholly antithetic territory. I honestly consciousness similar she thrives successful this abstraction and I honestly can’t deliberation of a amended idiosyncratic to instrumentality connected [the role].”

And she made definite to stress her support, adding, “I’m arrogant of you, baby!”

Keep speechmaking to spot much stars that graced the Wicked reddish carpet.

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