People Are Obsessed With This Video Of Ariana Grande Stressing Over Anybody Thinking She Believes The Moon Landing Was Fake

“Oh, god, the whole world is going to think that I think that — and I’m from Florida, you know what I mean? This is a nightmare!”

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Stephanie Soteriou
by Stephanie Soteriou

BuzzFeed Staff

In case you missed it, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have started working the promo circuit ahead of their upcoming movie Wicked, and their interviews have already provided some serious gems.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande pose stylishly near the Eiffel Tower. Cynthia wears a green dress and hat; Ariana wears a pink dress with gloves
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On Monday, a video of the duo participating in Vanity Fair’s infamous Lie Detector Test went live online, and it was eye-opening, to say the least.


For example, at one point, Ariana was visibly thrilled to be given the opportunity to debunk cosmetic surgery rumors once and for all as she confirmed exactly what she has had done to her face. 

But there is another moment from the test that is now going viral, with people obsessing over how stressed Ariana became when the lie detector mistakenly suggested that she believes the 1969 moon landing was fake, which is a popular conspiracy theory.

Ariana Grande sits beside a polygraph machine, looking confused. She wears an elegant dress and various ear piercings
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Hooked up to the lie detector, Ariana exclaimed: “Jesus Christ, what do you take me for?!” when Cynthia bluntly asked her: “Do you think the moon landing was fake?”


“No,” Ariana then stated. “No!”


But the polygrapher, Stephanie, said this answer was “inconclusive.” 


“That’s what it’s saying?!” Cynthia asked in shock. “That’s hilarious. That’s hilarious — do you think the moon landing is fake?!”

“No, not until now, not until Stephanie put that on me! But you know, we've been there,” Ariana insisted, but Stephanie said in response: “The machine is showing deception.”

Ariana Grande is wearing a dress with a choker-style necklace and star-shaped earrings. She poses against a dark background with "VF" in the top right corner
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“You don’t believe it, that’s hilarious,” Cynthia laughed before asking: “Do you think the Earth is actually flat?”


“No!” Ariana replied, which Stephanie confirmed “may be” the truth.


“What in the fuck do you think I am?!” Ariana asked, and when presented with the question again, she doubled down, saying: “No, the Earth is round.”


“I think you were still thinking about the moon landing when you answered this question,” Cynthia said, and Ariana joked: “Yeah, I’m thinking about a lot of things!”

Later, it was Ariana’s turn to quiz Cynthia while she was hooked up to the lie detector. When the polygraph confirmed that Cynthia was telling the truth when she said that she didn't believe the moon landing was fake, Ariana couldn’t help but reference her own result.

Cynthia Erivo sits for a lie detector test in a modern studio setting, wearing a outfit with a wide-brimmed hat. An inset shows the lie detector results
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“What was I then? I don’t think it was fucking fake either!” she insisted before asking her costar: “You don’t think the video is a little, like, you know…?”


“No, I’ve never even questioned it,” Cynthia replied. “Because so many people have been to the moon since then.”


“But that’s what I’m saying, then why aren’t there more videos like that??” Ariana asked.


“I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s fake, though,” Cynthia maintained. “Am I gullible?”

“I don’t think it is either!” Ariana exclaimed. “I don’t know why Stephanie fucked me up like that, she really got me! Oh god, the whole world is going to think that I think that — and I’m from Florida, you know what I mean? This is a nightmare, this is a nightmare!”

Ariana Grande sings passionately while wearing a strapless dress, diamond choker, matching earrings, and butterfly hair accessories. Vanity Fair logo is visible
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At this point, Cynthia tried to reassure Ari, saying: “Listen, half of the world thinks it didn’t happen…”


“But I think it happened!” Ariana interrupted. “You’re missing the point; I know it happened!”


“It’s OK, let me help,” Cynthia said before issuing a PSA to viewers as she spoke directly into the camera: “Ariana Grande believes that the moon landing is real. It happened. This is just a machine thing, OK?! She believes what I believe.”


“Of course I do,” Ariana confirmed.

Needless to say, people have found the entire situation absolutely hilarious, and the clip has already caused a stir on both X and TikTok.

Babe wake up, new favorite Ariana Grande clip just dropped pic.twitter.com/vIr9s7SMjT

— grant👨🏻‍🦱 (@urdadssidepiece) September 30, 2024
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Sharing the video, one viral tweet reads: “HELP ME SHES SO UPSET OVER THIS DAMN QUESTION 😭😭😭” 

“Babe wake up, new favorite Ariana Grande clip just dropped,” somebody else wrote. 

Meanwhile, “ariana was STRESSING😭” is one of the top comments on Vanity Fair’s TikTok of the moment. Another user wrote: “the dead serious panic has me 😭😭😭😭”

And somebody else jokingly concluded: “Famous Florida woman believes moon landing is fake.”

Ariana, never change!

Cynthia Erivo wearing a large-brimmed hat and a white top, smiling. Text reads: "Ariana Grande believes that the moon landing is real."
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