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Ariana Grande: Doughnut flap was 'excruciating'

Arienne Thompson
USA TODAY
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Pop star Ariana Grande knows her history with pastries is a troubled one.

Months after she caused a stir for licking a doughnut and saying that she hates America, she's still talking about the incident, telling Good Morning America that she's definitely learned her lesson.

"I think one of the biggest things I learned from that was what it feels like to disappoint so many people who love and believe in you. And that’s an excruciating feeling," she said while promoting her new perfume, ARI. "You have to remember that your words, your actions, have, you know, ramifications and you have to really think about what you’re about to say and do because it’s important. It’s important to so many people."

And, yes, she's well aware how stomach-turning her stunt was, but she's moving on and trying to do better.

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"My behavior was very offensive and I apologized," she continued. "There’s no excuse or there’s nothing to justify it. I think that as human beings we all say and do things that we don’t mean at all sometimes and we have to learn from it, I mean, it’s part of our process. We have to learn from our mistakes and that’s how we grow.”