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Cynthia Erivo Addresses 'Insidious' Reaction to Her Defending Ariana Grande

Cynthia Erivo is speaking candidly about the public reaction to her defending Ariana Grande from an intruder at the Wicked: For Good Singapore premiere last year. Erivo, 39, leapt to Grande’s defense after Australian man Jonathan Wen attempted to rush the actress and singer on the red carpet in November 2025. Wen was subsequently jailed for nine days for being a public nuisance and banned from Singapore. “Nobody moved. Nobody moved. So I moved because my brain went, ‘Get him away! Get him out of here!’ My immediate reaction was ‘Get him away from us,’” Erivo recalled in an interview with Varie...