Katy Perry has responded to backlash following her Blue Origin space flight earlier this month, writing in a social media comment that she’s felt “battered and bruised” but has “kept looking to the light.”
On April 14, the pop star was part of an all-female crew — also including “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King and journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez — who took an eight-minute trip to space via the Jeff Bezos-founded tech company. Though its purpose was to bring attention to women in aeronautics, the flight resulted in a flood of criticism and ridicule online, even from Perry’s fellow celebrities like Olivia Munn and Amy Schumer and the fast food chain Wendy’s.
Though Perry did not address the flight directly, she responded to the online hate in a lengthy comment under a post from the fanpage Katy Perry Brasil featuring a billboard about her upcoming tour.
“I’m so grateful for you guys. We’re in this beautiful and wild journey together. I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond,” she wrote. “I love you guys and have grown up together with you and am so excited to see you all over the world this year! 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.”
Perry then referenced advice her therapist gave her, writing: “No one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself.” She continued, “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 said that she keeps positive by focusing on “what’s real”: “seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. 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.”
Perry added that she’s “not perfect” and has even “omitted that word from my vocabulary.”
She concluded: “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.”
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