Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies 'Reprocessed Everything Together' From 'Victorious' After Watching 'Quiet on Set'

Victorious co-stars Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande used weekly FaceTime calls to help process the shocking revelations in the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set.

In a Variety interview published on Tuesday, July 16, Gillies, 30, detailed her frequent discussions with her former co-star about the show. One episode of the five-part series, which exposed sexual harrasment and other traumatic incidents experienced by Nickelodeon child stars and staff on Dan Schneider shows, contained footage from Victorious showing a teenage Grande, now 31, in sexualized positions.

"I certainly reevaluated my experience with Ariana over FaceTime," Gillies told Variety. "We watched it together, and then we got together later that week or the next week, and we sort of broke the whole thing down and talked about it, and reprocessed everything together."

Far from a casual conversation, the actress revealed the experience "was a lot to go through."

"It’s tricky when you look back on something incredibly positively, and then you learn a lot of information and also revisit things as an adult through a new lens that reframe the memories in your mind a little bit, or cloud them, or taint them — maybe rightfully so," Gillies continued.

The Dynasty star also mentioned that it was vital to "thoughtfully" reflect on their time on the Nickelodeon show, which lasted four seasons from 2010 to 2013.

"I’m very lucky I have such a close relationship with my cast — and with Ari — and that we were all able to do that together, because we definitely leaned on each other, talked amongst each other and checked in with each other," Gillies said.

Grande echoed Gillies' thoughts in an interview on Penn Badgley's Podcrushed podcast, where she said it was devastating to hear about the traumatic experiences of other former child actors.

"Specifically about our show, I think that was something that we were convinced was the cool thing about us—is that we pushed the envelope with our humor,” Grande shared in the interview linked below. “And the innuendos were… It was like the cool differentiation. And I don’t know, I think it just all happened so quickly and now looking back on some of the clips I’m like, ‘Damn, really? Oh shit’… And the things that weren’t approved for the network were snuck on to like our website or whatever. ... I guess I'm upset."