Katy Perry regrets “making a public spectacle” of going to space, it is reported.
The pop megastar, 40, was one of six women to fly in the Blue Origin NS-31 from Texas on Monday in a mission funded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezo’s space exploration company. The 11-minute journey has been criticised for its questionable environmental impact, and for the bizarre and dramatic antics of the crew, including Perry.
When Perry, who became a pop sensation with I Kissed A Girl in 2008, emerged from the Blue Origin capsule, she immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky, eventually dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.
Now it is thought the mum of one, born in California, is experiencing second thoughts about partaking in the mission. A source said: “Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it.”
The comments contrast with Perry’s remarks given to a reporter moments after she emerged from the capsule. The Firework hitmaker said: “It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging. It’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.”
Yet the singer has faced a strong backlash. Our Environment Editor, Nada Farhoud, argued the mission helped Mr Bezos’s vanity project. Others condemned the stunt for its timing – because NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have only just returned to Earth after being stranded in space for more than nine months.
And the source told Mail Online Perry now regrets “kissing the ground” after the flight as well as her “close-up camera moments” inside the capsule – where she held a daisy up to the camera, promoted the setlist to her upcoming tour, and sang the lyrics to What a Wonderful World all while suspended in microgravity.
Perry, who has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards since 2009, planned to bring the daisy to space as a “beautiful tribute” to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, whom she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
The pop sensation is yet to publicly address the criticism surrounding her Blue Origin space mission in any interviews or on social media. She has had five number-one songs in the UK, including as a featured artist, but the musician’s last chart topper was for her part in the tune Feels back in 2017. She and two other musicians were featuring artists on the Calvin Harris track, thhe video for which features Perry and the otherstars lounging around on a desert island.
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