Ariana Grande Apologizes Again For Donut Fiasco: Full Apology from ‘Sorry Babes’ YouTube Video

Ariana Grande Attends Grammy Awards
Ariana Grande at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California on March 2011. |

Transcribed Text from 'Sorry Babes' YouTube Video:

"Hi y'all, it's me. I'm free of my puffy cheeks. I'm making this video from wisdom tooth recovery health. But, I just wanted to make a video to apologize again for the whole donut fiasco and craziness because I feel like the apology that I posted, I was, I kind of missed my opportunity to actually sincerely apologize and express how i was feeling because I was too busy preaching about my issues with the food industry, which is like, not I feel like relative. I feel like I could have expressed myself a different way, so here I am apologizing again and, you know, I was trying to get you to understand where I was coming from when I said what I said. But that's not important. I'd rather just apologize.

So, I feel like now's my chance before the whole thing blows over. Uhm, to say, my sorry and I'm actually, I've never actually been prouder to be an American to be honest with you, with the advances that we've made in the past couple of months and all the wonderful progressive things that have been going on. Never been prouder of this country, actually. But yeah, here I am apologizing to y'all. No puffy cheeks now. Because I feel like, seeing a video of yourself behaving poorly that you have no idea was taken is such a rude awakening that it's like you don't know what to do. I was so disgusted with myself. I wanted.. I just shoved myself into a pillow and wanted to disappear.

But instead of that, I'm going to come forward and own up to what I did and take responsibility and uhm say, I'm sorry because I reacted in a way that I feel like wasn't necessary to say the least. But also just wasn't me at all. I apologize for my poor choice of words and for my behavior. Uhm. Seeing how ugly it looks when you behave a certain way makes you want to never behave that way again but you know, you learn from it. I was just very embarrassed and I never want to be anything but a positive influence on my babes or my loves or anyone who pays attention to me for that matter, who follows me or sees what I do. It's not what I want to do. I want to be a positive influence, so I feel like I let you all down, which sucks.

Uhm, it has not been an easy 24 hours. Uhm, it's been rough. But uhm, you know. I made a mistake and I'm being judged for it, which I understand because I watched it and I was just as disappointed and ugh.. in myself. So I get it 100% and I'm 22 years old. I'm human. I still got a lot to learn and I make mistakes and that's how I'm gonna learn. I'm gonna learn from my mistakes and I'm gonna learn by messing up and that's how we grow, you know? We just have to get better and actually act on it and use the mistakes as a platform to learn and to grow and to become better. It's all a process. Uhm, but yeah, I wanna be as good as I possibly can be for my babes and yeah, so I'm not here to make any excuses or justify my behavior "cause I can't. I'm just here to apologize and tell you that I love you and I appreciate being able to talk to you so directly like this and I am very sorry and I love you."