Katy Perry reportedly has a major “regret” about her Blue Origin space trip after it sparked a furore of celebrity backlash.
The popstar, 40, joined five other women for the first female-only space mission in more than six decades on Monday, flying through space for several minutes before returning to Earth.
Stars like Emily Ratajkowski, Lily Allen, Amy Schumer, and Olivia Munn blasted the Jeff Bezos-funded 11-minute flight, calling it “disgusting”, “out-of-touch”, and “planet-destroying”.
Many called out the environmental impact of the trip, while others mocked Perry’s dramatic reaction when she stepped off the spacecraft, including kissing the ground and saying she feels “super connected to love”.
Amid the outrage, sources claimed the Firework singer regrets the mission being turned into a “public spectacle”.
“Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life-changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it,” an insider told DailyMail.com.
The source claimed Perry regrets kissing the ground and some of her “close-up camera moments” while in space.
These included holding a daisy up to the lens in tribute to her four-year-old daughter Daisy, revealing the setlist for her upcoming Lifetimes tour, and singing Louis Armstrong’s song, What A Wonderful World.
The Standard has contacted Perry’s representative for comment.
Perry was joined in space by five other women - journalist Lauren Sanchez, broadcaster Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin is owned by 61-year-old billionaire Amazon founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur, Jeff Bezos, who is engaged to Sanchez, 55.
Ahead of flight NS-31 taking off into space, actress Olivia Munn called the mission “gluttonous” due to the extraordinary cost for just 11 minutes in space, pointing out: “Some people can't even afford eggs!”
Model Emily Ratajkowski 33, raged on TikTok: “That space mission this morning? That's end time s**t. Like, this is beyond parody.
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“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 single-handedly 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.”
Lily Allen said on her Miss Me? podcast: “I mean, what the f**king hell is that all about? But in all seriousness - what? Why? For why?
“I just think it’s so out of touch. We’re on the brink of recession, people are really f**king struggling to make ends meet and get food on their table.”
