Katy Perry brands herself 'human piñata' as she rages at critics over space trip
Katy Perry claimed she was being treated like a 'human piñata' after receiving criticism over her Blue Origin space trip this month. The Firework singer, 40, was up in sub-orbital space for an entire 11 minutes on a trip engineered by Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, who owns the Blue Origin rocket.
Katy, Jeff's girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn, all gushed that their ground-breaking endeavour was 'life-changing' but many people, including other A-list celebrities, slammed the flight and the stars who chose to take part in it. The California Girls singer has also been hit with endless memes after heading on tour. Fans were underwhelmed as the pop singer appeared to put on a number of awkward performances.
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Sick of the constant jokes, Katy took to the comment section of a post shared by a fan page on Instagram to thank the fans who support her.
"We're in this beautiful and wild journey together," she said. "I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond. 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. 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.
"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. What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth."
She continued: "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 I'm not perfect, and I actually have 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."
Following her flight to space, Katy and Gayle King were criticised for being 'tone deaf'. Lily Allen, who later apologised, joined in on the rage. She said: "Do we want to talk about Katy Perry and her mates all going up to space for 12 minutes? I mean, what the f***ing hell is that all about? But in all seriousness: What? Why?"
Emily Ratajkowski ranted: "That space mission this morning? That's end-time s***. Like, this is beyond parody.
"Saying 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?
"Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what? What was the marketing there? And then to try to make it like… I'm disgusted. Literally, I'm disgusted."
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