Ariana Grande's Problematic Look and Whether Those Around Her are Failing Her, with Maureen Callahan

Ariana Grande, we've been talking about it here. You've been talking about it on the nerve. She's dangerously thin. She is disturbingly thin. And the outrage is that her team doesn't seem to care. They seem to want her to keep going. They seem much more focused on making money off of her than actually checking her into a facility, which is very clearly, in my opinion, where she belongs. Now she's becoming fodder for these late night so-called comics like Bill Maher, who he's right on brand. He doesn't give a ---- about any woman, much less Ariana Grande. And here he is the other night on her Sat 10. The administration this week, just a few days ago, maybe yesterday, they unleashed a new trove of UFO files. Interesting things in there, triangular craft, weird lights over an army base, a stick-like figure with large eyes. That was just an Ariana Grande video. We wanted to, maybe that joke will make her eat something. So I'm doing my, I'm saying maybe it'll help. **** him. It's really not funny. **** him. You know, I spoke about on the nerve the other day when we were covering Ariana, my own experience with an eating disorder and how painful it is and how treatment resistant it is. And I look at her and I think she should be in a hospital. She is probably at the point where she can't physically eat. At a certain point, your stomach, it certainly happened to me. It shrinks to the point where you can't take food in, like your body doesn't want it. Somebody wrote in with another- Look at that picture, Maureen. Look at that picture. She is skeletal. And you know, I put a lot of blame on the mainstream entertainment media as well, which does the kind of whistles right past this stuff, or they turn the conversation into some meta impersonal debate about, should we be talking about women's bodies? Should we be body shape? That's not this conversation. It's not. And the question I now really do have is, you know, there's a thing that happens and we saw it with Michael Jackson, who was, I believe, near bankruptcy when he died. Elvis Presley, same thing, in a lot of trouble when he died. The artist's value tends to go up when they die. And the younger they die, and the more tragic the circumstances, the more the interest in the music and the catalog grows and grows and grows. So I look at this poor young woman, and I think she is surrounded by nobody who truly has her well-being at the top of the list. She is a cash cow. She makes money for people. That is it. She's been famous since the time she was very young. She came up in the child star, I believe it was Nickelodeon. We all know- Yes, the sick, sick Nickelodeon. We all know how dark that is. And I'm also sure that what she's being told by her team, who is, I think, listen, I just saw this report the other day and I thought, this is the right thing. Rod Stewart had to cancel his tour because he underwent emergency heart surgery. They canceled the tour. You can cancel a tour. They're making Ariana Grande finish out this tour that she's on. Finish it out. Are you really going to tell me she's not being given drugs to finish this out? Because this is the kind of skinny where you can't even climb a flight of stairs on your own. Think about this. In 2006, $20,000 equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold at spot price. At today's prices, those 33 ounces would be worth about $165,000. That's why many smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. And that's why you should consider buying gold from Birch Gold Group. For thousands of years, gold has been a store of wealth. And today, it's a crucial part of any balance strategy. Even better, Birch Gold can help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax-sheltered retirement account in gold. Just text MK to the number 989898 to receive your free info kit on gold. 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Instead, they released the video of this pedal, which we aired on our show last week and our audience couldn't believe their eyes, that appears to be highlighting her bones protruding here in video four. The collarbone is like, I'm trying to make mine do it. Look at this. They want us to see. Look at this. Look at the chest cavity. It's all bone. That right there is someone who needs help. That video, to me, she's telling us whether she's dialed into it or not. That this is the cost of being her. I actually don't think that Ariana, if she continues this way, will wind up like Britney. I just don't think she will live much longer. I think she's clearly on the Karen Carpenter trajectory where that eating disorder does so much damage to your internal organs. Your heart can no longer take it. We talked about Karen the other day. Right before her death, she was admitted to the ICU, I think at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. They put her on an IV drip because she had done so much damage to her digestive organs that she could not take physical food. I know Ariana Grande, her mother's in the picture. Her brother, Frankie Grande, is in the picture. These people will all have blood on their hands if something happens to her. Again, as someone who suffered from this, it's beyond clear. There's no debate. She's a very, very, very sick young woman. She's very sick. She needs immediate help. Well, this is our opinion. We need to make clear. It is our opinion. We don't have any confirmation. Allegedly, reportedly. We don't know that she's got anorexia, but our eyes would certainly suggest she does, or some sort of eating disorder. You're right to raise Karen Carpenter because one of the most disturbing things about Karen Carpenter's case for the listening audience, for the young audience who doesn't remember her, rainy days and Sundays always let me down. Something like that. I can't remember the words, but something like that. A voice as smooth as velvet. Just one of the most beautiful voices we've ever had in American song making. She died at age 32 after she'd gotten help. She was on the way back to wellness, if memory serves, but it was too late, Maureen. She'd already done so much damage by the deprivation in calories. She looked 70, even though she was 32, Karen Carpenter. That's what's going to happen to Ariana, too. There's only so much all the silicon and Botox and plastic surgeons can do with somebody who insists on making themselves look like a corpse. My mom is in the mental health field. She spent her life at the Albany VA helping veterans, but she also had a private practice when she was younger with mental health. She said this is one of the hardest things to cure, an eating disorder. It is just so hard to break somebody out of it. Then you add all the pressures that a huge celebrity like Ariana would have if she has this, and it would be 10 times harder, even more. Part of what also makes it so treatment resistant is a sufferer. Again, I'm not saying she is, but you can get to the point where either you're in real denial, like you think people around you are overreacting and you are just fine and you really like the way you look, or the extreme weight loss, it becomes like a high. It's like a dopamine hit. How much control can I exert over my body, over this primal meat? You have to eat to survive, right? But if you can control that and then couple that with the era of Ozempic that we're in, this kind of stick thin look, we see celebrities on the red carpet all the time. We're being told by the media, they look great. They look like death. They look like death. Demi Moore. Charlize Theron is way too thin. Margot Robbie. She's gotten so thin. Margot Robbie and that other girl. What's the name? Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde. Who also, I said, looked like a corpse. Now she came out and she's attacking me. I'm sorry. Look, I'm sad that you've let this happen to you. I used to be your big fan when you were on House, but she looks skeletal now. She goes, oh, it's the camera angle. Okay, it wasn't the camera angle. Camera angle doesn't make bones protrude when they're not actually protruding. It doesn't make your eyes completely sunken in your head like we see in a skeleton when they're not. I mean, we all know the difference between thin, even very thin, and skeletal. It's plain as the nose on your face. They are the ones who don't see it. They are the ones who don't see it and think they look good in this very corrupt industry that will just continue exploiting them. So I really hope she does get the help she needs. No fear.