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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Ariana Grande Reveals Making Thank U, Next Was an Absolute Necessity for Her Mental Health · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. While an A Grande
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  Speaker 1: is leaning into her work as an actress ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the Academy Awards, where she's nominated for Best Supporting Actress
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  Speaker 1: for Wicked, she's also reflecting on one of her most
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  Speaker 1: notable projects as a pop star, twenty eighteen's chart topping
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  Speaker 1: thank You Next, and how critical making it was to
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  Speaker 1: her mental health. Ariana shared on the Hollywood Reporters Awards
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  Speaker 1: Chatter podcast she needed to make music as part of
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  Speaker 1: her therapy following the attack on her Manchester concert, as
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  Speaker 1: was as the loss of Rex mac miller, admitting the
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  Speaker 1: music brought her necessary levity during a dark chapter in
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  Speaker 1: her life. She says music poured out of me and
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  Speaker 1: it was made with urgency. It was a means of survival.
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  Speaker 1: The label understood that, but they were also hesitant to
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  Speaker 1: stop Sweetener, my prior album, dead in the Tracks and
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  Speaker 1: move on to an album so quickly. But I didn't
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  Speaker 1: care about the formula or played by the rules. It
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  Speaker 1: was what I needed for my soul. That's sorry and
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  Speaker 1: Grandees speaking on her album thank You Next, and her
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  Speaker 1: instincts paid off. The projects spent two weeks at number
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  Speaker 1: one The title track spent seven weeks on top Wickeed,
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  Speaker 1: currently on VOD that's direct from Hollywood.