Ariana Grande Breaks Down in Tears in ‘Depraved’ Bubble

Ariana Grande wasn’t mendacity about shedding tears on the set of Depraved.

In a behind-the-scenes video posted to Instagram by Grande, 31, and director Jon M. Chu, the actress could be seen reacting tearfully to her closing day filming in her character Glinda’s magic bubble. Seated in her poofy pink robe throughout the bubble prop, Grande responds to Chu’s query about how she’s feeling: “Horrible. Horrible.” 

“I’m not getting up,” proclaims the “very emotional” Grande within the video. “I must name my therapist, I actually do. This can be a mess.”

Depraved: Half One (in theaters now), tailored from the hit Broadway musical, stars Grande as Glinda the Good Witch reverse Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Oz’s future Depraved Witch of the West. The “Sure, And?” singer’s Glinda kicks off the film by getting into Munchkinland inside a floating bubble very similar to the character does in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. 

Requested by Chu, 45, for her first impression of her regal bubble system, Grande quips, “I assumed it was stunning however I additionally thought it was a karaoke sales space.” The video ends with a montage of pictures from the actress’ closing day filming on the Munchkinland set. 

Grande described the video in a caption as “trying to say goodbye to my bubble after we completed filming my closing scene in it… the attachment i felt to my wand and my bubble was comically overwhelming. (please be at liberty to chuckle)”

Calling the bubble “a house away from residence” for Glinda and a “secure place for all of her little secrets and techniques and truths,” Grande added that she misses the film’s “bodily items of her usually,” together with the character’s wand. “sorry this caption seems like a literal eulogy,” she concluded the put up. 

Throughout a press tour usually stuffed with tears, Grande instructed the hosts of Broadway Podcast Community’s Sentimental Males podcast in November, “Me, everybody, all of us cried day-after-day… It was actually stunning.” 

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Grande additionally shed a tear when introduced with the unique magic wand wielded by Billie Burke in The Wizard of Oz whereas on The Drew Barrymore Present on Dec. 5. 

Depraved: Half One is in theaters now, with Half Two slated for Nov. 26, 2025. The films costar Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater and Michelle Yeoh. Go behind the scenes of Depraved with PEOPLE’s new particular situation, obtainable right here.