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"The past few years have been Ariana Grande&amp;apos;s time to shine. The 21-year-old released her debut solo album Yours Truly in 2013 and found a No. 1 smash hit in her single &amp;quot;Problem.&amp;quot; But some of her year has not been cause for celebration.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nGrande has had a major feud with her father, graphic designer Edward Butera, for the past year, and it has been one of her biggest struggles.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Falling out of touch with my dad [was the toughest thing I&amp;apos;ve ever dealt with],&amp;quot; she told Seventeen magazine in the September issue. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x2019;s private, but it happened last year. It took me so long to be okay with it.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe recording artist, whose kid&amp;apos;s show Sam &amp;amp; Cat was recently cancelled by Nickelodeon, talked about her journey toward forgiveness.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;The thing that got me there was embracing the fact that that I am made up of half my dad, and a lot of my traits come from him,&amp;quot; she admitted. &amp;quot;So much of me comes from my father, and for so long, I didn&amp;#x2019;t like that about myself. I had to accept that it&amp;#x2019;s okay not to get along with somebody and still love them.&amp;quot;\r\nGrande also has to deal with issues in her personal life while maintaining a very public persona, which is a challenge in and of itself.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;It&amp;#x2019;s tough to spend some of the most important years of your life in front of so many strangers who want to pick you apart,&amp;quot; she told Seventeen. &amp;quot;Insecurity has been the hardest thing I&amp;#x2019;ve had to overcome. I think everyone my age struggles with that because everyone strives for approval and wants to feel loved.&amp;quot;\r\nEarlier this month, &amp;quot;The Way&amp;quot; singer lost her beloved grandfather Frank and had to tell her brother Frankie Grande via letter while he was filming in the Big Brother house.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;#x2019;m having the biggest song of my career so far, and all I can think about is my grandpa, because that&amp;#x2019;s what&amp;#x2019;s important to me,&amp;quot; she said in the interview conducted before his passing.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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