Katy Perry says she’s been made a ‘human piñata’ after backlash to space flight

‘Astronaut’ Katy Perry has responded to the backlash over her space trip, slamming the widespread ridicule over her zero-gravity antics.

On April 14, the Teenage Dream hitmaker was part of Jeff Bezos’ 11-minute all-female Blue Origin mission into space.

Many questioned the environmental impact of what some have called a ‘vanity flight’, with Katy, 40, getting most of the criticism.

This has emboldened people to take aim at her over other things like her ‘cringe’ Lifetimes Tour, which started recently in Mexico City.

Amid the criticism, Katy said she felt like a ‘human piñata’ in reply to a social media post which was condemning the hurtful comments.

She wrote: ‘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.’

Katy revealed that she had been taking strength from a ‘game changer’ comment from her therapist years ago.

‘No one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself,’ she shared.

The Firework singer continued: ‘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.’

The recent onslaught began when Katy headed into space with the likes of Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, and Lauren Sanchez (who is also married to Bezos).

It was met with scepticism from the first announcement, partly thanks to the revelation that Blue Origin’s main mission is to put our rubbish into space.

Then, during the flight itself, Katy held up a Daisy for her daughter and sang What A Wonderful World – before promoting her tour.

Landing back on earth after the excursion, she dramatically kissed the ground, which a source later admitted she now regrets.

She was quickly slammed by her fellow celebs, including Lily Allen, who has since apologised for her ‘misogynistic’ comments.

‘I just think it’s 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,’ the LDN hitmaker had previously said.

However, Lily wasn’t the only one feeling that way as Vicky Pattinson stated that the mission doesn’t represent ‘feminism,’ claiming its aim was to ‘distract’ people from how women’s rights are being ‘slowly, almost imperceptibly, taken away.’

Emily Ratajkowski was one of the first to share her ‘disgust’ at the move while Olivia Munn called the mission ‘gluttonous’.

In her response, Katy continued: ‘I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that. 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.’

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