Over the years – and especially after her music career rocketed to new heights this year – the 21-year-old star has faced multiple incidents that painted her in a less than pleasing light:
Sam & Cat Controversy
Grande came to be known and loved by Nickelodeon fans as the quirky, red-headed best friend on Victorious, but she saw the dark side of fame after her spin-off series Sam & Cat was cancelled earlier this year. Fans of the show eagerly fed into rumors that Grande's growing fame following the release of her hit single "The Way" was to blame.
Grande's Sam & Cat costar Jennette McCurdy added fuel to the fire by posting a rant – which fans believed was entirely about Grande – on her TwitLonger page just before the show was officially cancelled. Since the cancellation, McCurdy has also released her webseries What's Next for Sarah? , which features a character in the third episode that many are saying is based on Grande.
Grande has never publicly addressed the reported feud, but she also did not thank McCurdy in her lengthy post on her TwitLonger page after the show's cancellation.
And as Grande's star continued to rise, so did her number of critics. That reality is something the singer has had a challenging time dealing with.
"It's tough to spend some of the most important years of your life in front of so many strangers who want to pick you apart," she said in the September issue of Seventeen . "Insecurity has been the hardest thing I've had to overcome. I think everyone my age struggles with that because everyone strives for approval and wants to feel loved."
Photo Shoot Drama
By the time Grande released her second single, "Problem," the singer's list of press and promotional obligations became as long as the list of demands she reportedly made at a photo shoot in Australia earlier this year.
Among the reported list of demands: a series of banned interview topics and a mandate that Grande be shot only from her left side. But all of these rules were for naught after Grande left the location mid-shoot, according to multiple reports.
But Grande remembers that day differently.
"It was just a photographer or something who got mad at me because I left to change my outfit mid-photo shoot because I didn't like my top and I was like, 'Oh, I'll be right back'. And then I came back and he had left and I was like 'Oh s---.' He's ... said all these ridiculous untrue things about me and I'm just like, you know what, that's not real. That's nonsense," Grande said on the Australian radio show Mike E & Emma . "My fans know who I am, my family knows who I am, my friends know who I am and that's all that matters."
Facing Her Critics
There have been other reported incidences of diva-like behavior, but Grande stands by her decisions and is learning to turn a blind eye to the gossip.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion," she told PEOPLE in August. "If you are going to be an unnecessary b----, then that's one thing, but if you're going to have an opinion that's another. But still I don't really feel like [the negativity] deserves my attention or my passion or my energy."
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