Ariana Grande won't face criminal charges for doughnut licking incident
It brought on two long YouTube apologies, but Ariana Grande's doughnut licking video won't lead to criminal charges.
Police in Lake Elsinore, California said in a statement Monday that the owner of Wolfee Donuts, where the licking took place, declined to press charges against Grande. They say their investigation was primarily to help the Department of Health, which lowered the restaurant's grade from an "A" to a "B" for leaving the tray of doughnuts exposed.
Joe Marin, the owner of the store, told CBS 2 in Los Angeles that Grande and her male companion (reportedly her rumored new boyfriend, backup dancer Ricky Alvarez), were caught on camera doing something nasty to his powdered doughnuts. "One of the trays, yeah, she was licking on them and the other trays, she spit on them," he said.
In the second of her two YouTube apologies posted last week, the 22-year-old singer said she was "disgusted" with herself and wanted to "disappear" after TMZ posted the video.
She said, "Seeing a video of yourself behaving poorly that you had no idea was taken is such a rude awakening."
In another online apology earlier in the week she expressed regret at saying "I hate America" in the same video.