Celebrity Celebrity Relationships Celebrity Dating Ariana Grande Once Told a Young Fan Her Dream Dinner Date Would Be with Jeffrey Dahmer: 'I Have Questions' "I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger," the pop star said in a recent episode of 'Podcrushed' By Ilana Kaplan Ilana Kaplan Ilana Kaplan is a Senior Digital Writer/Editor at PEOPLE. They have been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Their work has previously appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and more. People Editorial Guidelines Published on June 20, 2024 03:20PM EDT Close Ariana Grande attends the Academy Awards on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood. Photo: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Ariana Grande sure is a "dangerous woman." During a recent episode of Podcrushed, the pop star, 30, opened up about the time she told a fan that her dream dinner date was with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. "I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger,” Grande told podcast co-hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari. Jeffrey Dahmer enters the courtroom of judge Jeffrey A. Wagner on Aug. 6, 1991. Eugene Garcia/AFP/Getty Ariana Grande Recreates 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' in 'We Can't Be Friends' Music Video — Watch! The subject came up when she was in a Q&A with "young fans." “It was in between me being Cat [in Nickelodeon’s Sam & Cat] and pop stuff, so it was like a younger group, and they were with parents, and someone said. ‘If you could have dinner with anyone living or or dead, who would it be?’” she recalled. Grande continued, “I was like, ‘Oh, you're so cute. Mom and Dad, is it OK if I give the real answer?’ And they were like ‘Sure, what’s the answer?’ and I was like, ‘I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty fascinating." "I think I would have loved to have met him. Y’know, maybe with a third party or someone involved. But I have questions,'" she concluded. Grande's choice of dinner guest ultimately made the podcast hosts laugh, but her answer upset fans' parents in the room. "The parents were like, 'We’ll explain it later, sweetie.’ And I was like, ‘I’ll just sing ‘Problem’ and go home," the "Positions" musician recalled. While Grande will never get her questions answered by Dahmer, she has been able to star alongside Evan Peters — who played him in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — in the music video for "We Can't Be Friends." The Christian Breslaur-directed visual was inspired by the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In it, Grande plays a character called Peaches who is undergoing a procedure to erase memories of an ex-boyfriend, played by the American Animals star, 37. Evan Peters and Ariana Grande in the 'We Can't Be Friends' music video. Ariana Grande/YouTube Why Ariana Grande Listens to 'Some' of Her Songs and Has Others She Prefers to 'Not Hear Ever Again' Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The video features flashbacks of Peaches and her ex as they embrace in an arcade, make snow angels and lie in bed together. The pair even recreates the final scene of the 1984 film Sixteen Candles during the clip. By the end of the visual, both Peaches and her ex go through with the procedure.