Ariana Grande Will Close the Eternal Sunshine Tour Without Her Signature Heels

The final two shows of Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine tour will look slightly different. The singer posted to Instagram Stories that a minor foot injury, a deep cut bandaged under wraps, will keep her out of her usual heels at London’s O2 Arena on August 31 and September 1. “I will need to be in cozy footwear for this evening’s show (and possibly tomorrow’s),” she wrote, telling fans not to “fret” if she is “a few inches shorter than usual.”

Grande was precise about the nature of the injury. It is not a sprain or a muscular issue, she said, but a cut that required bandaging. “On with the show and i am on the mend,” she added. The tone was practical, not dramatic, and the shows are proceeding as scheduled.

The announcement fits a larger pattern of scaleback after this tour. Grande has already withdrawn from a West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and will not appear in the upcoming season of American Horror Story, citing scheduling conflicts. Earlier this month in Chicago, she addressed speculation about her well-being directly. “Multiple things can be true at the same time,” she told the crowd. “Boundaries need to be set, human beings can need a break sometimes and also, this can be and will continue to be the greatest experience of my professional and creative life.”

The footwear shift is a small adjustment, but it underlines how the closing stretch of this tour is being handled with visible care, not just for the production but for the person at its center.