Katy Perry ‘regrets’ one thing about controversial space trip

Nothing has captivated the collective cultural consciousness in quite some time as Katy Perry’s under-11-minute trip to space.

However, her all-women Blue Origin flight has not had the crowd cheering for feminism as Katy, 40, may have anticipated.

Their flight lasted 10 minutes and 21 seconds and took off about 120 miles southeast of El Paso at 8.30 am local time.

The Roar hitmaker has been getting huge amounts of backlash over the environmental impact of what some are calling a ‘vanity flight’.

Days after landing, she finally addressed the response after speaking about the ‘life-changing’ experience of defying gravity.

Katy, who kissed the ground when she arrived back on earth, feels the public is making a ‘spectacle out of it’.

An insider told the Daily Mail: ‘Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life-changing.’

They added: ‘What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it.’

Unfortunately for Katy, her dramatic and enthusiastic speeches about ‘love and belonging’ have been largely ridiculed online.

The source admitted Katy does regret some of this behaviour, particularly the ground kissing and her ‘close-up camera moments’.

A reporter called her an astronaut, prompting an emotive ‘thank you’ from the California Gurls singer.

Her commentary after the flight wasn’t the only thing that rubbed fans the wrong way, as while she was floating in space, Katy posed for the onboard camera with a daisy for her daughter.

As she promoted her upcoming tour set list, many felt she should be looking out the window and living in the moment like the rest of the crew.

The flight’s roster also included aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, feminist activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

She also sang a rendition of Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World, rather than her own space-themed track, E.T.

Even fellow celebrities have been slamming the Firework singer, with Lily Allen being the latest celeb to criticise the flight.

The Not Fair hitmaker shared on her podcast with Miquita Oliver: ‘I just think its so out of touch we’re on the brink of a recession, people are really struggling to make ends meet, it just seems like things are hard at the moment.’

Miquita questioned: ‘Not really the most appropriate time to send Katy Perry into space?’

‘For absolutely no reason!’ Lily replied. ‘It’s like we send people to space to discover things, for scientific reasons.’

After Miquita says it was bad timing, Lily says with evident outrage: ‘And the fact that they’ve made it like some sort of feminist thing!’

Emily Ratajkowski was one of the first celebs to call it out, stating on TikTok: ‘That space mission this morning? That’s end time stuff. Like, this is beyond parody.

‘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?’

Vicky Pattinson shared: ‘This isn’t feminism. They want to distract you with this so you don’t focus on the fact that slowly, almost imperceptibly, women’s rights are being taken away.

‘I don’t think we need to see a bunch of uber rich women fired into space in a schlong shaped space ship for 5 minutes… we need equal pay, access to reproductive healthcare, the right to vote, to feel safe, autonomy over our own bodies, the right to safe, accessible abortion.’

However, Blue Origin crew member Gayle King has defended their trip: ‘
‘What Blue Origin wants to do is take the waste here and figure out a way to put it in space to make our planet cleaner.

‘Jeff Bezos has so many ideas, and the people that are working there are really devoted and dedicated to making our planet a better place. That’s number one.

‘There was nothing frivolous about what we do.’

So turns out the trip was a test to see if in future we could litter space with our waste, rather than our planet.

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