she was fourteen at the audition and twenty-one when it ended. what she has said since the allegations surfaced is careful, and it is not nothing.
the short answer
in june 2024, on penn badgley's podcrushed podcast, she said she was reprocessing her time at nickelodeon in light of the quiet on set docuseries, described the allegations in it as devastating, and said the environment for young performers needs to be made safer. she was fourteen when she auditioned for victorious. she has not made accusations of her own.
what she actually said
the interview is the only substantial one she has given on the subject. the substance of it: that she was fourteen at the audition; that she and her co-stars were children who wanted the work more than anything, which is a condition that makes people easy to manage; that she has been going back over those years since the docuseries; that what has come out is devastating; and that the environment needs to be made safer.
what she did not do is make an allegation about a specific person or a specific incident. that is a real limit on this page, and it is a limit she chose. reading it as either an accusation or an exoneration is reading something into it.
the context
quiet on set: the dark side of kids tv aired in march 2024 and set out allegations about the working culture at nickelodeon during the period when victorious and sam & cat were made, including the sexualisation of child performers in written material. dan schneider, who created victorious, responded by apologising for some past behaviour, saying he regretted it, and calling for some old jokes to be cut from reruns. he separately sued the producers of the series for defamation over what he said was an implication he sexually abused child performers.
the specific clips
a large amount of the 2024 discussion revolved around resurfaced footage of grande as a teenager on those shows, in scenes and web sketches many people found uncomfortable to watch in retrospect. she has not commented on individual clips. she has commented on the condition that produced them: children who wanted the job, and adults who wrote what they wrote.
why she is asked more than most
because she is by a wide margin the most successful person to come out of that period, which makes her the one with the least to lose from speaking and therefore the one people most want to hear from. it also makes her the one for whom speaking has the largest consequences for everybody else involved. she has been asked in essentially every interview since 2024 and has not gone further than the podcrushed answer.
the other well-known account from those sets is jennette mccurdy's memoir, published two years before the docuseries and about a different kind of harm.
questions people ask
what did ariana grande say about quiet on set?
in june 2024 she called the allegations devastating, said she was reprocessing her own time at nickelodeon, and said the environment for young performers needs to be made safer.
has ariana grande accused anyone at nickelodeon?
no. she has spoken about the environment and the conditions young performers worked under, without making an allegation about a specific person or incident.
how old was ariana grande when she joined nickelodeon?
she was fourteen when she auditioned for victorious. she was cast in 2010 and the nickelodeon work ended in 2014.
what did dan schneider say?
he apologised for some past behaviour, said he regretted it and would do a better job given the chance, and separately sued the docuseries producers for defamation.
where did she give the interview?
on penn badgley's podcrushed podcast, in june 2024. it remains her only substantial public comment on the subject.