‘A Literal Witch’: WICKED’s Ariana Grande Practices Occult
By Movieguide® Staff
Amid WICKED’s massive build-up and box office run, Ariana Grande opened up about how she practices occult activities, even calling herself “the witchiest witch.”
“I sit somewhere between being a literal witch,” Grande told Zach Sang, “A literal witch, I’m not kidding, and being the most cut and dry.”
Later in the interview, she said, “I am indeed the most witchiest witch,” before she detailed drawing tarot cards for actor Jim Carey.
This isn’t the first time the songstress has opened up about her occult and supernatural encounters.
“I’ve had a ghost/demon experience. We were in Kansas City a few weeks ago and went to this haunted castle and were so excited. The next night we wanted to go to Stull Cemetery, which is known as one of the seven gates to hell on Earth. The Pope won’t fly over it,” Grande told Complex.
Grande continued:
I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car and we smelled sulfur, which is the sign of a demon, and there was a fly in the car randomly, which is another sign of a demon. I was like, “This is scary, let’s leave.” I rolled down the window before we left and said, “We apologize. We didn’t mean to disrupt your peace.” Then I took a picture and there are three super distinct faces in the picture—they’re faces of textbook demons.
I deleted it. The next day I tried to send the picture to my manager and it said, “This file can’t be sent, it’s 666 megabytes.” I’m not kidding. I used to have a folder called “Demons” that had pictures with all the screencaps in it, but then weird things started happening to me so I deleted it.
I was going to sleep about two weeks ago. I had just gotten off the phone and as soon as I closed my eyes I heard this really loud rumble right by my head. When I opened my eyes it stopped immediately, but when I closed my eyes it started again with whispers. Every time I closed my eyes I started seeing these really disturbing images with, like, red shapes. Then I opened my eyes and got back on the phone and was like, “I’m really scared and I don’t want to go to bed tonight.” And then I scooched over to the left side of my bed, because that’s where the best service is in my room, and there was this massive black matter. I don’t know what it was.
It was like a cloud of something black right next to me. I started crying. I was on the phone like, “What do I do, what do I do?” and they said, “Tell it to eff off.” I thought, I’m not going to do that. It’s going to upset it, so I’m just going to chill and not feed into it because all it wants is fear. It feeds on fear. I watched it move to the front of my bed and then I fell asleep on the phone. I woke up and it was gone. The next night my friend Tyler was staying with me. She said she was trying to sleep and her body felt paralyzed almost, and she described the same exact thing I saw.
Though the Complex interview was published more than 10 years ago, Grande still dabbles in the occult.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’s Bowen Yang detailed how Grande would bring tarot cards to the set of WICKED.
“Ari had gotten a deck of queer tarot cards and she was basically doing a three-card pull,” Yang said. “She was giving us tarot readings. She was very in her element and I was like, ‘You should do this for a living.'”
Despite Grande’s spiritual practices, Movieguide® found that WICKED actually warned against the dangers of the occult.
“Although Elphaba has magical powers, when she finally casts a spell in WICKED, part one, from a book of magic or ‘grimoire,’ the spell has bad, unintended consequences. Similar things happen in Act Two of the play. Thus, as a pop culture phenomenon, WICKED actually shows the dangers of using witchcraft,” according to the Movieguide® review.
Though the musical had redemptive elements, Grande should heed the warning and seek Christ to redeem her own life.
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