Ariana Grande has been called “sick” by the mother of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, after the pop star said the serial killer was one of her dream dinner guests.

Dahmer rose to notoriety after he murdered 17 men and boys in a spree of torture, dismemberment, sexual assault and even cannibalism between 1978 and 1991.

His victims were mainly people of color and he was known for storing their body parts in his fridge, disposing of them by flushing their body parts down the toilet and even storing their bodies in huge vats in his apartment. The late killer also photographed many of his victims throughout the course of his assaults.

During an appearance on the podcast that went live earlier this month, Grande brought Dahmer into the discussion when she told hosts Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari and Nava Kavelin that she would like to sit down with him.

Grande said she had talked about Dahmer with a group of young fans during a Q&A early in her career.

“I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger,” Grande said. “It was in between me being Cat [on teen sitcom Sam & Cat] and pop stuff, so it was like a younger group, and they were with parents, and someone said, ‘If you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?'”

“I was like, ‘Oh honey, you’re so cute,'” she continued, adding that she prefaced her answer by asking the parents if she could respond honestly. “They were like, ‘Sure, what’s the answer?’ and I was like, ‘I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty fascinating.'”

The chart-topping singer said that she still holds an interest in questioning Dahmer, who was beaten to death in prison in 1994.

“I think I would have loved to have met him,” she said on the podcast. “You know, maybe with a third party or someone involved. But I have questions.”

Grande’s comments were condemned by Shirley Hughes, the mother of Tony Hughes, a deaf, non-verbal man who Dahmer killed in 1991.

“To me, it seems like she’s sick in her mind,” Hughes told of Grande. “It’s not fancy or funny to say you would have wanted to do dinner with him. It’s also not something you should say to young people, which she says she did.”

Tony Hughes’ sister, Barbara Hughes-Holt, also weighed in on the comments, saying that Grande has glamorized Dahmer. She also expressed a desire for Grande to issue an apology so her fans would understand the issue.

Regalrumination.com has contacted a representative of Grande via email for comment.

Known as “The Milwaukee Cannibal,” Dahmer engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism in his later murders. In recorded interviews with police, , including his experience of eating human flesh.

Dahmer became a renewed talking point in recent years after released the miniseries Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, with Evan Peters in the titular role.

The show followed the timeline of Dahmer’s murders from the perspective of his victims, the people who tried to stop him, and those who knew him.

Dahmer sparked a backlash, with critics saying the real-life murders were turned into entertainment, with the families of some of the victims expressing their objection to the show and claiming they were not contacted by Netflix, consulted, or even asked permission for their loved ones’ murders to be reenacted on TV.

According to TMZ, creator Ryan Murphy defended his project, saying victims’ families and friends were contacted but did not respond.