--- title: Ariana Grande Apologizes on YouTube for Licking Those Doughnuts description: Pop star Ariana Grande posted a video to YouTube on Friday in which she expresses contrition for licking some doughnuts canonical: https://time.com/3952415/ariana-grande-apologizes-licking-donuts/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-10T03:19:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:34.073Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Ariana Grande Apologizes for Licking Those Doughnuts og:description: "I was so disgusted with myself," she says on YouTube. og:url: https://time.com/3952415/ariana-grande-apologizes-licking-donuts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ariana Grande Apologizes for Licking Those Doughnuts twitter:description: "I was so disgusted with myself," she says on YouTube. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ariana Grande Apologizes on YouTube for Licking Those Doughnuts by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 10, 2015 3:19 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 10, 2015 3:19 AM CUT Pop star Ariana Grande posted a video to YouTube on Friday in which she expresses contrition for licking some doughnuts on a tray at a southern California shop. “Seeing a video of yourself behaving poorly is such a rude awakening — it’s like, you don’t know what to do,” she says in the four-minute black-and-white apology. “I was so disgusted with myself. I wanted to shove my face into a pillow and disappear.” On Wednesday, [TMZ released footage](http://www.tmz.com/videos/0%5Fk28d2d0h/ "undefined"), apparently taken from a security camera, that appears to show Grande licking the doughnuts and saying that she hates America. 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