Ariana Grande<\/a>-Butera in the credits, and she had a heartfelt reason for doing so.<\/p>\nShe told The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast: “It’s my birth name, and that was my name when I first saw ‘Wicked’ when I was a young girl.<\/p>\n
“And I feel like this experience was such a homecoming to myself, my young me, that maybe little pieces of her got lost along the way.”<\/p>\n
She saw the credits as a way to include her “full” self in the experience.<\/p>\n
\nShe added: “It felt like a homecoming to her, so this felt like a beautiful celebration of that homecoming and way of including my full me.”<\/p>\n
\nThe ‘No Tears Left To Cry’ hitmaker previously opened up on using the name for the credits, after podcaster and journalist Justin Hill referred to it as her “full grown-up name”.<\/p>\n
\nShe replied: “Technically, it’s my little girl name. It\u2019s technically little [Ari\u2019s] name.”<\/p>\n
\nHer mother Joan’s last name is Grande and her father is Ed Butera, while her parents got divorced when she was eight years old.<\/p>\n
\nShe explained how both her own character Glinda and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) taught her a lot about herself.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI feel like I came home to myself in a lot of ways through what I learned from Glinda, from Elphaba.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat was my name when I went to see the show when I was 10 years old, and it felt like a really lovely way of honoring that. It felt really full-circle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe character also affected her voice, and Ariana has fired back at critics over her changing pitch.<\/p>\n
\nShe told the ‘Smartless’ podcast: “I think that might stay. Galinda required a lot of vocal work for me. Certain things maybe won\u2019t melt away.<\/p>\n
\n“Some will, but I\u2019m really grateful for the pieces that will stay with us forever… What a beautiful thing to be left with, and to feel the ghost of every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
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