Katy Perry offers reassurance to fans

Katy Perry has reassured fans that she is "OK" amid a wave of online criticism. The 'Firework' hitmaker has faced a backlash, largely due to her participation in Blue Origin's recent all-female space flight, as well as for working with controversial producer Dr. Luke - who has been accused of abuse by Kesha - and also faced mocking over the choreography on her current 'Lifetimes' tour, but as she has thanked her supporters for trying to uplift her, she insisted she simply sends "love" to her critics.

She commented on an Instagram fan account: "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.



"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.

(sic)" Katy has found it particularly healing to connect with fans at her concert and refused to give in to her haters. She added: "What's real is 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 co l'm not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, 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 (sic)" Lily Allen recently apologised to Katy for "being mean" and singling her out when she criticised the Bue Origin mission and the all-female crew – which included broadcaster Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez but she dismissed as "Katy Perry and her mates" – for their brief trip into orbit.

Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast, Lily said: "I would actually like to apologise for being mean about Katy Perry last week. "Oh, there was actually no need for me to bring her name into it, and it was my own internalised misogyny. "I've been thinking about it a lot, and it was just completely unnecessary to pile on with her.

"I mean, I disagree with what it was that they did, but she wasn't the only person who did it. Yet, she was possibly the most famous and the one that, you know, it divides people the most. "Well, anyway, I'm just sorry.

I would have been hurt if it had been me and someone in my industry used me and my name. "And I saw that, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Katy Perry. I know you don't, don't listen to the show, but, yeah, sorry.

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