The household of considered one of Jeffrey Dahmer‘s victims is talking out, slamming Ariana Grande for as soon as saying she’d be focused on having a sit down with the late serial killer.
ICYMI … the pop star’s gotten some backlash this week for a current 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 nicely 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 desires the singer, and most of the people, to know she and different victims’ households expertise very actual ache any time Dahmer is introduced up.
She provides … “To me, it looks as if she’s sick in her thoughts. It’s not fancy or humorous to say you’d have wished to do dinner with him. It’s additionally not one thing it is best to say to younger individuals, which she says she did.”
Shirley says she finds it troubling Ari did not appear to indicate any empathy for the victims’ family members.
Tony’s sister, Barbara, shares the same sentiment … saying the feedback glamorize Dahmer, who was overwhelmed to loss of life 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, motion pictures, streaming providers and ebook publishers.
In actual fact, Tony’s household was simply as outraged when the Netflix sequence, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” got here out with Evan Peters enjoying 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 associates, 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 now we have been by way of.”