Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…Ariana Grande explained her decision to “step back” from the spotlight Monday evening, sharing her announced break from “visibility” was not “a reactive or impulsive” decision. “So basically, the announcement that was made yesterday was not a reactive or impulsive thing,” she told the crowd at Monday’s concert stop for the Eternal Sunshine tour in Chicago, Illinois. As Grande went on, she made it “very, very clear” that “multiple things can be true at the same time.” #parasocial ♾️ https://t.co/oW7uhR5B27 — mikey 🛸 (@cowboylikemikey) August 4, 2026“Yes, boundaries, they need to be set. Grande assured her fans that “no matter what noises exist out there” nothing would “ever be able to distort [her] reality.”