Police said on Wednesday they were investigating video that appears to show Ariana Grande licking doughnuts at a shop in southern California. Earlier, Grande apologized for saying “I hate America” in the same video.
Police in Lake Elsinore, where the doughnut shop is located, said they and Riverside County public health officials were investigating the leaked video, which appeared to show the 22-year-old singer and a man with her “maliciously lick” the doughnuts.
Mayra Solis, 22, a cashier on duty at Wolfee Donuts when Grande went into the store, said the singer didn’t purchase any of the doughnuts she licked.
“She was really rude,” Solis told the Associated Press.
Earlier on Wednesday, Grande said in a statement to the AP that she was a proud American. Dottie Ellis-Merki, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County department of environmental health, said the agency was investigating why the doughnuts were left out unprotected and exposed to the public, in violation of state food laws. She said investigators found no further issues at the shop on Wednesday.
