Frankie Grande on homophobes telling him to die of AIDS: “It pushed me further into my addiction”

After ‘Big Brother‘ [in 2014], people would call me gay, f*ggot, tell me to die of AIDS on Twitter, and it broke me. It pushed me further into my addiction than I ever, ever wanted to go.

But now, I don’t take those things personally. I know that there needs to be a figure that people can aim their hatred at, and I’m at a place in my life where I can take it. I can be a shield.

I’m like, just throw your hatred at me so everyone else can continue to exist and suck and f*ck in the club.

Frankie Grande speaking to Ariana Grande for Interview magazine about the impact online haters had on him in the past and how he’s learned to overcome

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