Ariana Grande’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar campaign continued today with a very candid profile for The Hollywood Reporter. The actress and singer detailed the work she put into her Wicked role but also touched very honestly on the toll childhood and later pop star fame has had on her.

Grande, first of all, did address fans’ dating rumors between her and co-star Cynthia Erivo, with whom she shares a very close offscreen friendship. (Grande is actually dating Ethan Slater, while Erivo is seeing Lena Waithe.)

“People think we’re secretly married,” Grande said. She also is aware of “the Gelphie stuff,” or content that Wicked fans have made of her and Erivo’s characters, Glinda and Elphaba, being romantically involved. “I wish I could unsee some things,” she admitted. “I mean, wow, I had a feeling, but I didn’t know it would be on this scale or this graphic.”

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These days, Grande doesn’t feel that she needs to explain her personal life to the public. The tabloid rumors and misinformation about her will “never be unpainful,” she said. “But also, I walk with the awareness that I’m an artist and this is a path that I’ve chosen, and so I just try to protect myself so that I never start to resent the art.”

She also spoke about how her pop star image is a character, just as much as Glinda is. “At a certain point, you get tired of that [pop star] character, because it is a character,” she said. “There are pieces of you and your story that are woven throughout your songwriting, but then, because of the way it travels and becomes sensationalized, it gets away from you. And beneath all of it is just a girl from Boca [Raton, Florida] who loves art, and I think that’s why it’s been such a deeply healing gift to disappear into this character—to take off one mask and put on another.”

Grande has been famous since she was a teenager, appearing on Broadway’s 13 before going on to play Cat Valentine in Nickelodeon’s Victorious. That experience has given her a strong opinion on child stardom and what is actually needed to keep kid performers safe. “I have dreams of a world where you’re not allowed to enter the entertainment industry without having it written in your contract, whether it’s with the record label or the production company, that there will be therapy multiple times a week and a support system,” she said. “Being on a show that changes your life or releasing a song that changes your life exposes you to many forces, both love and hate, and there is no manual.”