Everything I do for the rest of my life, the victims will be on my mind & in my heart every day
Star will return to Manchester to help the injured and grieving families
she wanted to “spend time with my fans, and to have a benefit concert for the victims and their families”.
Ariana added: “They will be on my mind and in my heart every day and I will think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life.”
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi murdered 22 people and injured 59 more on Monday night when he blew himself up in the foyer of the Manchester Arena as fans were leaving Ariana’s gig.
Eight of those killed were under 18 and the youngest was eight years old.
Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from the isle of Barra, was among the dead and her friend Laura MacIntyre, 15, remains critically ill.
Ariana, 23, made her pledge to return in an emotional online message.
She said in a statement on Twitter: “I will have details to share with you as soon as everything is confirmed. I want to thank my fellow musicians and friends for reaching out to be a part of our expression of love for Manchester.
“I don’t want to go the rest of the year without being able to see and hold and uplift my fans, the same way they continue to uplift me.”
She added: “My heart, prayers and deepest condolences are with the victims of the attack and their loved ones.
“There is nothing I or anyone can do
to take away the pain you are feeling or to make this better.
“However, I extend my hand and heart and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need my help in any way.”
Ariana called for the civilised world to respond to Abedi’s hate with love.
She said: “The only thing we can do now is choose how we let this affect us and how we live our lives from here on out.
“I have been thinking of my fans, and of you all, non-stop over the past week.
“The way you have handled all of this has been more inspiring, and made me more proud, than you’ll ever know.
“The compassion, kindness, love, strength and oneness you’ve shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday. “YOU are the opposite. “I am sorry for the pain and fear you
must be feeling and for the trauma you must be experiencing.
“We will never be able to understand why events like this take place because it is not in our nature, which is why we shouldn’t recoil.
“We will not quit or operate in fear. We won’t let this divide us. We won’t let hate win.
“Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.”
Ariana had met at least one of the murdered fans, student Georgina Callander, 18
She said she had wanted her Dangerous Woman tour, above all else, to be “a safe space for my fans”.
It was meant to be “a place for them to escape, to celebrate, to heal, to feel safe and to be themselves”.
And she insisted: “This will not change that. When you look into the audience at my shows, you see a beautiful, diverse, pure, happy crowd – thousands of people, incredibly different, all there for the same reason, music.
“Music is something everyone on earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy. So that is what it will continue to do for us.
“We will continue in honour of the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy.”
Ariana posted a link to the Red Cross and Manchester Evening News appeal which has already raised more than
£5million for the injured and bereaved. She suspended her world tour after the bombing, cancelled several European shows and returned to her home in Florida to be with her family. She plans to return to the stage in Paris on June 7.
Ariana tweeted soon after the bombing: “Broken, from the bottom of my heart. I am so sorry. I don’t have words.”
She later paid tribute to the emergency services who “rushed towards danger to help save lives” and said she was in mourning for “the children and their loved ones taken by this cowardly act”.