{"id":284317,"date":"2019-11-29T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1098107"},"modified":"2019-11-29T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:59:53","slug":"ariana-grande-celebrates-thanksgiving-with-both-her-parents-for-the-first-time-in-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ariana-grande-celebrates-thanksgiving-with-both-her-parents-for-the-first-time-in-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Celebrates Thanksgiving With Both Her Parents For the First Time in 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201962\/rs_600x600-190702054424-600-Ariana-Grande-VMAs-2018-LT-070219-GettyImages-1020423856.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.86303630363\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.742574257426\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Thanksgiving was extra sweet this year.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in nearly two decades, the superstar, on a break from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/980492\/ariana-grande-announces-sweetener-world-tour-2019-dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her <em>Sweetener<\/em> tour<\/a>,&nbsp;celebrated the holiday with both her mom&nbsp;<strong>Joan Grande<\/strong> <em>and&nbsp;<\/em>dad <strong>Edward Butera<\/strong>. Taking to Instagram, the &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; singer shared black and white snaps from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1097971\/see-how-your-favorite-stars-are-celebrating-thanksgiving-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">festivities<\/a>, which included dancing and face painting, of course. As she captioned a family selfie, &#8220;First Thanksgiving with both of my parents in 18 years!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since their 2003 divorce, the Grammy winner has been open about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/564056\/ariana-grande-covers-seventeen-magazine-and-reveals-she-s-fallen-out-of-touch-with-her-father\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her strained relationship<\/a> with Edward. In fact, in a 2014 interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seventeen.com\/celebrity\/g979\/ariana-grande-pictures\/?slide=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seventeen<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;she called their falling out the toughest things she&#8217;s had to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;It&#8217;s private, but it happened last year,&#8221; she admitted. &#8220;It took my so long to be OK with it. The thing that got me there was embracing the fact that that I am made up of half my dad and a lot of my traits come from him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.322010869565\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.116847826087\">\n<p>&#8220;So much of me comes from my father and for so long, I didn&#8217;t like that about myself,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I had to accept that it&#8217;s OK not to get along with somebody and still love them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, over the years, it appears their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/999274\/ariana-grande-facetimes-with-her-estranged-father-on-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relationship has improved<\/a>. For Father&#8217;s Day in 2017, she shared a rare throwback snap of the duo, writing,&nbsp;&#8220;Happy Father&#8217;s Day I love you.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.541666666667\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.083333333333\">\n<p>And, in her 2018 hit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1012829\/ariana-grande-s-thank-u-next-album-decoded-pete-davidson-mac-miller-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 hit &#8220;thank u, next,&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;she once again references him. &#8220;One day I&#8217;ll walk down the aisle holding hands with my mama,&#8221; the 26-year-old sings. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be thanking my dad &#8217;cause she grew from that drama.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, we&#8217;re&nbsp;sure she&#8217;s grateful to have everyone together for the holiday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><i>E! 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Taking to Instagram, the &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; singer shared black and white snaps from the festivities, which included dancing and face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-10 11:53:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}