It seems people are finally getting to hear Katy Perry roar.
The pop star was launched into space on an all-female Blue Origin space tourism flight on April 14. But after the voyage, she and her crew were met with an onslaught of backlash, and now the “Dark Horse” singer is responding to her critics.
“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,” she wrote in a comment on an Instagram post by a Perry fanpage on Tuesday.
Perry went on to reassure fans that she is “ok,” writing that she has “done a lot of work” around understanding who she is. She shared that she’s come to recognize what truly matters to her — a skill she credits to her therapist. Remaining true to herself and living with “honesty,” she says, is something she owes to the love and support of her fans.
Perry also acknowledged that she’s not “perfect,” adding that she has “omitted that word” from her lexicon entirely.
“I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for [the] unhinged and unhealed,” she reiterated.
On April 23, during the first stop of her The Lifetimes tour in Mexico City, Perry appeared to address her critics — though this time, in a more teenage dream-like, roundabout way.
The singer asked the crowd: “Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?”
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