Katy Perry is back from space but not without regret. The “ET” singer reportedly regrets her journey aboard Blue Origin, the phallic-shaped space shuttle owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Perry has been catching heat for the tone-deaf space journey. According to the Daily Mail, Perry doesn’t regret the trip but she’s having second thoughts about how it went down.
“It was life changing,” a supposed source told the outlet about Perry’s space adventure. “What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it.”
The “spectacle” probably refers to Perry showing off her tour setlist while floating in zero gravity, plus everything she said leading up to — and returning from — space.
Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sanchez, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, movie producer Kerianne Flynn, and activist Amanda Nguyen launched into space on April 14. The 11-minute ride took them just 62 miles above Earth.
Despite the backlash, Perry returned to her home planet with a new perspective. “We weren’t just taking up space, we were making space,” she said in a post-space interview.
King’s comments were similarly cringe. “Have you been in space? Go to space, or go to Blue Origin and see what they do,” the CBS This Morning anchor quipped in response to the backlash. She followed up by promoting Blue Origin’s apparent goal of putting trash in space (yes, trash in space. Let that sink in).
The dust hasn’t quite settled, but Perry has been using the extra press to further plug her tour. Meanwhile, fans are continuing to blast her over the trip.
“How do you feel destroying years of work towards resolving climate change just for 11 minutes in space???” Reads on comment on her Instagram.
“How are you not embarrassed of yourself? So out of touch,” another commented.
One comment called for a boycott of Perry’s tour. “We need to make our French Revolution. Enough of the privileged tone deaf. There was nothing empowering about that sickening stunt.”
“Can we leave her in space,” reads one comment channeling Wendy’s response to Perry’s space trip.
Another comment added, “I prefer heroes who protect people and the planet.”
Perry kicked off her Lifetimes tour on Wednesday in Mexico City.
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