A lie detector test is meant to get the real answers to hard-hitting questions — but for Ariana Grande, a string of inquiries about her history with plastic surgery was more than welcome.

While taking a lie detector test with her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo for Vanity Fair, Grande was challenged to answer “dangerous” rapid fire questions in honor of her album Dangerous Woman. That included some themed to her song “Popular” from the movie: “Did you ever get any work done to make yourself feel more popular?” Erivo asked Grande.

“To my face? To my physical appearance?” Grande clarified. When Erivo confirmed that Grande would be asked “all the questions,” the relief on Grande’s face was obvious. “Oh! Thank goodness,” she said, clearly valuing the opportunity to set the record straight after years of rumors that she’d had a number of plastic surgeries.

Grande quickly denied having had a nose job, breast augmentation, an eye lift, a chin implant, or a facelift (though she added that she’s “open” to the latter down the line), and all of her answers were deemed truthful by the lie detector.

“This is the best day of my life. Take that, you YouTube people!” Grande said in celebration. That doesn’t mean she’s never dabbled with cosmetic injections: “I’ve had fillers in various places, and Botox, but I stopped like four years ago, and that is the extent,” she added.

That’s when Grande gave a shout out to anyone who has gotten work done. “Also, like, in full support of all people who do these things. Werk,” she said. “Whatever makes women, men, non-gender conforming people feel beautiful should be allowed. Why do we care?”

Grande was faced with one more surgical question: has she ever gotten a BBL? To that, she simply cast a thousand-yard stare and said, “Get the f*ck out of here.” 

After jokingly saying “yes” and having her deception show up on the detector, Grande added that she doesn’t ever want a BBL in the future, either. “That wouldn’t work for me. I don’t think that’s my thing, and I’m okay with that, you know?” she said.

Grande did, however, acknowledge that her brother Frankie Grande had gotten work done when looking at an old photo of them together on a red carpet. “This was two noses ago for Frankie,” she quipped.

Check out the full interview with Grande and Erivo below.

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