Katy Perry won’t let the haters keep her down.
The “Teenage Dream” songstress spoke out on Tuesday after receiving brutal online hate for her “Lifetimes” tour and Blue Origin space flight.
“I’m so grateful for you guys. We’re in this beautiful and wild journey together,” she wrote in an Instagram comment on a fan page.
“I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest, especially because of our bond,” Perry, 40, added.
“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.”
The “Roar” singer continued, “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.”
Perry explained that when the “‘online’ world tries to make [her] a human piñata,” she accepts it with grace and sends her love.
“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.
Perry shared that seeing her fans at her concerts, hearing them sing in unison and locking eyes with the audience, helps her know that they are “healing each other in a small way.”
“l’m not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary,” she added.
“l’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.”
The hitmaker’s heartfelt message comes after several fans and celebrities called her out for participating in the 11-minute ride to space on the all-female Blue Origin flight with Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn earlier this month.
Emily Ratajkowski took to social media to share she was “disgusted” by the launch and claimed the trip was “paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet.”
Olivia Munn also claimed the trip wasted “so much money,” while actress Jessica Chastain also shared her distaste.
Sánchez, 55, and King responded to backlash, telling People that those “criticizing” weren’t seeing the bigger picture.
“We can all speak to the response we’re getting from young women from young girls about what this represents,” King, 70, said.
“I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle. They love their work and they love the mission and it’s a big deal for them,” Sánchez added.
Perry also received criticism when she debuted a series of space-like themed outfits for her sci-fi-inspired tour, which kicked off in Mexico City on Wednesday.
Despite fans assuming the outfits were a representation of the pop star’s space flight, Perry’s tour is about video games.
According to the Associated Press, Perry was inspired by movies, such as “The Fifth Element” and “Blade Runner,” when building her sets around a video game character who fights evil forces.
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