Ariana Grande Confesses She’s “Reprocessing” Her Experience On ‘Victorious’ After “Devastating” ‘Quiet On Set’ Doc

Months after Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV swept the headlines with shocking accusations leveled against Nickelodeon and series creator Dan Schneider, singer Ariana Grande has finally reflected on her experience starring on Victorious as a teenager.

The former child actress paid a visit to Penn Badgley‘s Podcrushed podcast, where she spoke candidly about how “stressful” being on the show could be.

“I was 14 and I flew out to audition with Liz Gillies for Victorious, and we were all very excited and we got cast and it was the best news we could hear,” Grande said. “We were young performers who just wanted to do this with our lives more than anything, and we got to and that was so beautiful. I think we had some very special memories, and we feel so privileged to have been able to create those roles and be a part of something that was so special for a lot of young kids.”

Grande starred on Victorious from 2010 to 2013 before later reprising her role for a spinoff crossover special, Sam & Cat.

The singer confessed that she’s since began “reprocessing [my] relationship to it a little bit now, if that makes sense.”

Though she did not directly address the concerns raised in Quiet on Set, the Wicked star said it’s been “devastating” to hear what other former child actors, who she referred to as “survivors,” have gone through.

Victorious, which was set in a performing arts high school, was known for being slightly edgier in its comedy, something that Grande says the cast were proud of at the time.

“Specifically about our show, I think that was something that we were convinced was the cool thing about us — is that we pushed the envelope with our humor,” Grande said. “And the innuendos were…it was like the cool differentiation. And I don’t know, I think it just all happened so quickly and now looking back on some of the clips I’m like, ‘Damn, really? Oh shit’…and the things that weren’t approved for the network were snuck on to like our website or whatever.”

She also advocated for more adult supervision on set, noting that she had a support system that she often turned to when the show became “stressful.”

“I think the environment needs to be made safer if kids are going to be acting, and I think there should be therapists,” Grande says. “I think parents should allowed to be wherever they want to be, and I think not only on kids’ sets. If anyone wants to do this, or music, or anything at this level of exposure, there should be in the contract something about therapy is mandatory twice a week or thrice a week, or something like that.”

She continued, “A lot of people don’t have the support that they need to get through being a performer at that level at such a young age…the environment just needs to be made a lot safer all around and like I said I’m still in real time reprocessing my relationship to it.”