Ryan Murphy is leaving the door to the haunted house open for this scream queen.
Indeed, the American Horror Story creator has no hard feelings over Ariana Grande’s exit from season 13 of the long-running anthology series. In fact, he extended an invitation for the “petal” singer to join the show another time.
“She was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to juggle the tour with this,’” Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Aug. 6. “And I said, ‘OK, if you can’t, we can push to another season.’ She said, ‘Great.’”
Praising the 33-year-old as a “great friend,” he kept the details about her role scarce, although he admitted it was a “very big swing.”
“I might bring that back for another season, per Ariana’s availability,” he teased. “I think the world of her.”
Looking back at their time working together on Scream Queens, Murphy, 60, was eager to collaborate with Grande again.
“Ariana is a big fan of horror,” he shared. “She’s obviously done homages of that in her work; she did Scream Queens for me and loved the experience, and people love her in that show. So I will always work with her.”
