Katy Perry 'battered and bruised' by 'unhinged' Internet hate
'When the ‘online’ world tries to make me a human Piñata, I take it with grace and send them love'
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Katy Perry is clapping back at critics who have taken aim at her Blue Origin space flight, new music and recently launched Lifetimes Tour.
Commenting on a post about a tribute her fans made and put on display for her in New York City, the pop star left a lengthy response in which she said she was “grateful” for the support.
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In the video shared by a fan site from Brazil, a billboard in Times Square projects a message congratulating Perry on the opening week of her tour. “Katy Perry has taught us that love is the key that opens every door,” the caption reads. “Today, we wanted to remind her that she is never alone; our love for her is boundless, unwavering and eternal.”
“When the ‘online’ world tries to make me a human Piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed,” Perry commented on the post.
“Please know I am ok, I have done a lot work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me,” she wrote. “My therapist said something years ago that has been a game changer, ‘no one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself’ and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it’s an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it.”
The 13-time Grammy nominee said she is enjoying forging a connection with her fans on her latest tour and “singing in unison.”
“I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that,” she said.
The mother of one added that she is “not perfect” and has “omitted that word from my vocabulary.”
“I’m on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but… I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS ♥️,” she concluded.
Earlier this month, Perry caught heat online when she took part in a Blue Origin flight to the edge of space alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, journalist Lauren Sanchez, television host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and civil rights activist and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen.
Perry was blasted into the upper atmosphere for a 10-minute flight, and four minutes of zero-G conditions.
“It’s not about me. It’s not about singing my songs,” Perry told reporters following the flight. “It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us.” At a press conference later, she added, “We weren’t just taking up space. We were making space for the future.”
Supermodel and actress Emily Ratajkowski panned the group, asking her 2.7 million TikTok followers to “think about how many resources went into putting these women into space.”
“That space mission this morning? That’s end time s***. Like, this is beyond parody,” she said in a selfie-style video that has been viewed more than two million times. “That you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s singlehandedly destroying the planet?”
Ratajkowski said she was “literally, disgusted” by the celeb-stuffed capsule.
Olivia Wilde also chided the flyers, sharing a meme to her Instagram Stories in which someone posted a photo of Perry exiting the New Shepard spacecraft and kissing the ground. “Getting off a commercial flight in 2025,” they captioned the snaps.
“Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess,” Wilde wrote.
Olivia Munn also questioned the wall-to-wall coverage of the voyage when she co-hosted Today with Jenna and Friends earlier this month.
“I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now,” she said, according to Page Six.
Joe Rogan mockingly called Perry a “guru” after the trip and joked about her overselling its importance.
“Let’s not minimize the sacrifice they’ve made for a great nation — for the world, in fact. They’re profoundly different now,” he sarcastically said on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Perry’s latest album, 143, was also a flop. After it was released last year it debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and vanished from the charts less than a month later.
Still in its early days, the Lifetimes Tour has also been met with derision.
One social media account wrote on X, “Katy really needs to fire whoever’s her choreographer,” while a second swiped, “Every single video I am seeing from this Katy Perry tour is literally so cringe.”
However, Perry brushed off critics during a show in Mexico last week.
In a fan-shot video, she was seen inviting two spacesuit-wearing men from the audience to the stage.
“I want these gentlemen to come on stage, because they are dressed like my most current timeline,” she said.
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