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Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s memories of Mac Miller<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are tattooed on her heart.<\/p>\n The Wicked\u00a0actress revealed how the late rapper offered her encouragement as she ended her time on Nickelodeon\u2019s Sam & Cat\u00a0and began to make her debut album 2013\u2019s Yours Truly.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never talked about this, but actually Malcolm, whom you might know as Mac, encouraged me to be myself,\u201d Ariana shared on The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>\u2019s <\/a>Awards Chatter<\/a>\u00a0podcast Jan. 13. \u201cAnd that it was OK to kind of shed that character, and embrace my brown hair, and make R&B-influenced pop music and separate and do the brave thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reflecting on Mac\u2019s advice, the \u201c7 Rings\u201d singer added, \u201cI never said that. But it was a great influence, I\u2019m so very grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n The encouragement from Mac\u2014who dated Ariana from 2016 to 2018\u2014influenced her decision to feature him on her lead single \u201cThe Way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ariana Grande\u2019s memories of Mac Miller\u00a0are tattooed on her heart. The Wicked\u00a0actress revealed how the late rapper offered her encouragement as she ended her time on Nickelodeon\u2019s Sam & Cat\u00a0and began to make her debut album 2013\u2019s Yours Truly. \u201cI\u2019ve never talked about this, but actually Malcolm, whom you might know as Mac, encouraged me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ariana-Grande-on-Mac-Miller-Encouraging-Her.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234990,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234988\/revisions\/2234990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}