The sureveillance footage shows Ariana going into the store with her alleged boyfriend on the 4th of July and picking out $5 worth of doughnuts.
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Meanwhile, Grande insisted that her words were “taken out of context”. “I hate Americans. I hate America”.
Dottie Ellis-Merki, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health, told the Associated Press that Wolfee Donuts was investigated for leaving donuts out unprotected.
In a lengthy statement to BuzzFeed, Ariana apologizes for her comments towards her country, saying that they were made in jest due to her being an “advocate for healthy eating”.
The video, which was recorded over the weekend at Wolfee Donuts in, California, has the 22-year-old singer licking donuts, with her backup dancer and rumoured love interest Ricky Alvarez, reported E! “What the f**k is that?” she then says to an employee who brings out a fresh tray of donuts.
Under fire… Ariana Grande was filmed licking doughnuts in a bakery and declaring she hated America.
Since the video was made public, Grande has also pulled out of performing in Major League Baseball’s All-Star concert on Saturday.
The “One Last Time” singer now says she was expressing her frustration at the Unites States’ high child obesity rates.
She went on to urge everyone to do more to educate themselves about the dangers of unhealthy food. “And with my new responsibility to others as a public figure I will strive to be better”. However, Grande said that the change was because she is undergoing oral surgery.
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“I feel like the apology I posted, I was – I kind of missed my opportunity to actually sincerely apologize and express how I was feeling because I was too busy preaching about my issues with the food industry, which is like not relative”. So I zoomed (the camera) into her mouth, and the powdered ones, she did not lick them, she spit (sic) on those.
