Ariana Grande vows to return to Manchester for a benefit concert at the Arena to help victims of the bombing

Ariana Grande has promised to return to Manchester for a special benefit concert  to help the victims of Monday’s atrocity.

‘We won’t let hate win,” she says in a remarkable statement issued this evening.

‘My heart, prayers and deepest condolences are with the victims of the Manchester Arena and their loved one.,”

No date has been announced or ticket details, but Ariana says it will  be this year.

“We will never be able to understand why events like this take place because it is not in our nature, which is why shouldn’t recoil. ”

“We will not quit or operate in fear…..”

The statement in full:-

My heart, prayers and deepest condolences are with the victims of the Manchester Arena and their loved ones.

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 can possibly give to you and yours, should you want or need my help in any way.

The only thing we can we can do now is choose how we let this affect us and how we live our lives from here on out.

I have been thinking of my fans, and or you all, nonstop over the past week. The way you have handled all of this has been more inspiring and made me more proud than you will ever know.

The compassion, kindenss.love, strength and oneness that you’ve shown one and another this past week is the exact opposite of the heiress intentions utmost take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday.

YOU are the opposite.

I am sorry for the pain, and fear that you must be feeling and for the trauma that you must be experiencing .

We will never be able to understand  why events like this take place because it is not in our nature, which is why shouldn’t recoil.

We will not quit, or operate in fear.

We won’t let this divide us,

We won’t let hate win.  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.

Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each thereto love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.

I’ll be returning to the inczrwmedibly brave city of Manchester to spend time with my fans and to have a benefit concert in honour of and to raise money for the victims and their families.

I want thank my fellow musicians and friends for reaching out to be a part of our expression of love for Manchester.

I will have details to share with you as soon as everything is confirmed.

From the day we started putting the Dangerous Woman tour together I said that this show, more than anything else was intended to be a safe space for my fans.

A place for them to escape, got celebrate, to heal, to feel safe and to be themselves.

To meet their friends they have made online.

To express themselves.

This will not change that.

When you look into the audience at my shows, you see a beautiful diverse, pure, happy crowd.

Thousands of people incredibly different, all there for the same reason, music.

Music is something that everyone on earth can share.

Music is meant to heal us and bring us together, to make us happy.

So that is what it will continue to do for us.

We will continue in honour 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 every day I will think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life.

Ari