Ariana Grande expressed deep grief in a typed-out statement that she posted via Twitter on Friday afternoon. This is the pop singer's first public address since she tweeted on Monday night after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside of her Manchester Arena concert. The explosion killed 22 people and injured 59 others. 
 
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 "I have been thinking of my fans and of you all non stop over the past week. The way you have handled all of this has been more inspiring and made me more proud than you'll ever know," the singer wrote. "The compassion, kindness, love, strength and oneness that you've shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday. YOU are the opposite. I am sorry for the pain and fear that you must be feeling and for the trauma that you, too, must be experiencing." 
 
 Grande also announced that she will perform a Manchester benefit concert in honor of the victims and their families, but did not mention a specific date. Grande encouraged people to donate to a fund to help support the families of those harmed in the attack. 
 
 Grande was scheduled to perform two concerts at London's O2 Arena during the same week as the attack. Those shows are canceled. Five more shows – May 28th in Antwerp, May 31st and June 1st in Lodz, Poland, June 3rd in Frankfurt and June 5th in Zurich – are also canceled. 
 
 As of press time, Grande's next date is June 7th at Paris' AccorHotels Arena, one of six concerts remaining on her European itinerary. From there, Grande is scheduled for a nine-date trek through South America and Mexico on June 29th, followed by tours of Southeast Asia and Australia. 
 
 Following the tragedy in Manchester, the singer tweeted, "Broken. From the bottom of my heart, I am so so sorry. I don't have words." Grande reportedly returned to her home in Boca Raton, Florida in the aftermath of the attack. 
 
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 (CNN) Singer Ariana Grande has announced she will return to Manchester, England, for a benefit concert following a terror attack at her concert earlier this week. 
 
 The event, she said, will honor and raise money for the victims and their families. 
 
 "I want to thank my fellow musicians and friends for reaching out to be part of our expression of love for Manchester," she said in a letter posted Friday to social media. "I will have details to share with you as soon as everything is confirmed." 
 
 In the note, Grande praised her fans for their response to the incident, which left 22 people dead and more than 60 injured, including young children and teens. 
 
 In the hours and days after the attack, Grande's "Arianators" rallied behind one another with messages of support across social media. 
 
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– Ariana Grande says she'll return to Manchester for a benefit concert to raise money for the victims of Monday's bombing and their families. The singer posted a letter to fans on Twitter Friday. It was Grande's first public statement since tweeting she was "broken" in the immediate wake of the bombing that killed 22 people and injured dozens more as they left her concert, Rolling Stone reports. Grande didn't announce a date for the benefit concert but says she'll have more details once everything is confirmed. In the letter, Grande apologizes to her fans for what they must be going through while thanking them for their response to the tragedy. "The compassion, kindness, love, strength, and oneness that you've shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday," she writes. CNN reports Grande's fans have raised millions of dollars for victims of the bombing. "Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder, and to live more kindly and generously than we did before," she writes in the letter. Grande's next scheduled performance is June 7 in Paris.