--- title: Ariana Grande Won't Be Charged for Licking That Doughnut description: The owners of the doughnut shop where Ariana Grande ignominiously licked a powdered pastry won't press charges against the pop singer canonical: https://time.com/3956709/ariana-grande-charges-licking-donut-doughnut/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-14T03:42:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:13:14.499Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Ariana Grande Won't Be Charged for Licking That Doughnut og:description: The pop singer has apologized on YouTube for her behavior. og:url: https://time.com/3956709/ariana-grande-charges-licking-donut-doughnut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3cb7935912e67f6/69885a5b35ba6f25c8c0e20b/ap_656759091156.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ariana Grande og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ariana Grande Won't Be Charged for Licking That Doughnut twitter:description: The pop singer has apologized on YouTube for her behavior. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3cb7935912e67f6/69885a5b35ba6f25c8c0e20b/ap_656759091156.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ariana Grande Won't Be Charged for Licking That Doughnut > Sponsored content. 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A week and a half ago, a security camera at Wolfee Donuts in Lake Elsinore, Calif., captured Grande and her boyfriend putting their tongues against a doughnut sitting on an open tray, presumably heedless of whether some guileless consumer would later buy and eat it. In the footage, Grande also declares that she “hate\[s\] Americans” and “hate\[s\] America.” Last Thursday, she released a video [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G6BNwueFdg "undefined") in which she apologized for her behavior, justifying it as an exercise in antiobesity activism. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3956709/ariana-grande-charges-licking-donut-doughnut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3956709/ariana-grande-charges-licking-donut-doughnut/"},"headline":"Ariana Grande Won't Be Charged for Licking That Doughnut","datePublished":"2015-07-14T03:42:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:13:14.499Z","description":"The pop singer apologized on YouTube late last week","url":"https://time.com/3956709/ariana-grande-charges-licking-donut-doughnut/","keywords":["California","Music","Ariana Grande"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3cb7935912e67f6/69885a5b35ba6f25c8c0e20b/ap_656759091156.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3cb7935912e67f6/69885a5b35ba6f25c8c0e20b/ap_656759091156.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ariana Grande","caption":"Ariana Grande","creditText":"Scott Roth—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3956709/ariana-grande-charges-licking-donut-doughnut/","name":"Ariana Grande Won't Be Charged for Licking That Doughnut"}}]}] ```