with her costar broke in July, Ariana Grande has seemingly spoken out about the backlash.In an Instagram Story posted on December 29, Grande shared a long end-of-year message about “one of the most transformative, most challenging, and yet happiest and most special years” of her life. She doesn't directly mention her relationship with Slater (nor the ), but it doesn't take much reading between the lines to understand what she's referring to when she talks about “whispers” and “assumptions.”The saga continues.By “I have never felt more pride or joy or love while simultaneously feeling so deeply misunderstood by people who don't know me, who piece whispers together and make what they want out of me and their assumptions of my life,” Grande wrote in part.