00:00Just days before Ariana Grande was supposed to perform on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live,
00:11the singer has dropped out due to emotional reasons.
00:14Now Kanye West is stepping in to perform on the season 44 opener hosted by Star Wars actor Adam Driver.
00:20Producer Lorne Michaels confirmed the news on James Andrew Miller's Origins podcast, saying,
00:25We had Ariana drop out for emotional reasons two days ago. And then Kanye stepped up, so he will be there.
00:31On Thursday, Grande posted several emotional tweets. She wrote,
00:39The God is a Woman singer's tweets come just several weeks after her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller was found dead of an apparent overdose on September 7th.
00:49She later paid tribute to him on social media, writing, in part,
00:55Grande is currently engaged to SNL star Pete Davidson.
01:06For more on this story, head to THR.com.
01:09Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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