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Ariana Grande reveals terrifying on-stage accident: 'I nearly died'

Vocal sensation Ariana Grande kicked off her Honeymoon Tour on February 25 with a show at the Independence Events Center in Independence, Missouri and confessed that there was an on-stage accident that could have stopped the whole concert. 

She uploaded a video to YouTube in which she details what happened and explained that a mechanical lift she uses during 'Love Me Harder' broke and left her thinking she would be crushed by it:

"You need to know what happened during 'Love Me Harder'. First of all, I almost died. I'm supposed to be going up in my lift - in this wooden thing - this wooden thing breaks and I'm like... I'm about to be crunched by mechanical s**t and wood..."

Her guitar tech, Ruff, then gave his own account of what happened and explained how she was 'dangling' from the lift so rushed to help her. He described Grande as a 'badass' and the 'toughest person' he has ever met for managing to climb out of such a hairy situation and carry on with the performance as if nothing had happened.

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Watch the video in full here: