Ariana Grande Breaks Silence On Manchester Bombing

BOCA RATON, FL —Pop singer Ariana Grande, who said her heart was broken after Monday's suicide bombing outside her concert, broke her silence on Friday with a promise to return to the "incredibly brave city of Manchester" for a benefit concert. Grande did not say when the concert would take place. But she said she wants to raise money for the 22 victims who died in the attack and the 59 who were injured.

"I don't want to go the rest of the year without being able to see and hold and uplift my fans, the same way they continue to uplift me," penned Grande, who returned to Boca Raton, where she grew up, on a private jet with her mother, Joan.

"There is nothing I or anyone can do to take away the pain you are feeling or to make this better. However, I extend my hand and heart and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need my help in any way," she said. "The only thing we can do now is choose how we let this affect us and how we live our lives from here on out."

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Grande said she has been thinking of her fans in Manchester all week and praised the way the community has come together in the aftermath of Britain's most deadly terror attack in more than a decade.

"The way you have handled all of this has been more inspiring and made me more proud than you'll ever know," she said. "The compassion, kindness, love, strength and oneness that you've shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday. YOU are the opposite."

She went on to express her sorrow for the pain and fear that the people of Manchester must be feeling.

"We will never be able to understand why events like this take place because it is not in our nature which is why we shouldn't recoil," Grande said. "We will not quit or operate in fear. We won't let this divide us. We won't let hate win."

She told her fans that their response must be to come closer together, help one another "love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously" than before.

"Music is something that everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy. So that is what it will continue to do for us," she added. "We will continue in honor of the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy. They will be on my mind and in my heart everyday and I will think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life."

She signed the note Ari.

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