Lily Allen does a 180 as she apologises for ‘misogynistic’ comments about Katy Perry

Lily Allen has firmly backtracked on her comments towards Katy Perry after the Roar hitmaker made a historic trip to space.

Last week, pop star Lily, 39, was one of several celebrities criticising Katy, who was aboard a six-woman crew blasted into space as part of a Blue Origin flight.

The 40-year-old sang Louis Armstrong’s What A Wonderful World as she reached zero gravity along with CBS Mornings presenter Gayle King, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, astronaut Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and Jeff Bezos’s partner Lauren Sanchez.

After landing back on Earth 10 minutes and 21 seconds later, however, Katy and co. were met with immense backlash, with Smile songstress Lily branding the whole thing ‘so out of touch’.

Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast, which she co-hosts with pal Miquita Oliver, Lily introduced the topic with: ‘Katy Perry and her mates going up to space for 12 minutes…’

Miquita responded: ‘If they’re going to go up to space for 12 minutes, we can talk about it for 10 seconds and that’s about all it deserves.’

Lily then asked incredulously: ‘I mean, what the f***ing hell is that all about?’

She then ranted: ‘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.’

Miquita questioned: ‘Not really the most appropriate time to send Katy Perry into space?’, to which Lily declared: ‘For absolutely no reason! It’s like we send people to space to discover things, for scientific reasons.’

Mocking how the flight was ‘mad into some sort of feminist thing,’ it was abundantly clear what her position was… until the next podcast ep, on which Lily has done a 180.

Reflecting on her earlier remarks, the LDN singer began: ‘I would actually like to apologise for being mean about Katy Perry last week.

‘There was actually no need for me to bring her name into it, and it was my own internalised misogyny.’

Lily continued: ‘I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and it was just completely unnecessary to pile on with her.’

There’s one point Lily stands strong on, though, but perhaps wishes she addressed it differently.

‘I disagree with what it was that they did, but she wasn’t the only person that did it.

‘She was possibly the most famous and the one that divides people the most.’

As mentioned, Lily was far from the only person who had an issue with the space trip, with the likes of Emily Ratajkowski declaring herself ‘disgusted’ at the ‘parody’.

‘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?’, the model vented to her followers.

‘And then to try to make it like… I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted,’ she concluded, visibly infuriated.

Meanwhile, reality star 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.’

Katy and the crew caught heat from social media too, with several moments from the day reaching viral meme status and becoming the subject of TikTok hot takes.

While Katy herself described the flight as ‘life-changing,’ broadcaster Gayle admitted to feeling ‘saddened’ and ‘disappointed’ by the reaction, insisting: ‘There was nothing frivolous about what we do.’

Speaking to CBS Morning, she added: ‘Space is not an either or. It’s a both and, and because you do something in space, doesn’t mean you’re taking anything away from Earth. And what you’re doing in space is trying to make things better here on Earth.

‘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.’

Katy has since kickstarted her latest tour, which also hasn’t gone down well.

The Lifetimes tour has been mercilessly ridiculed by X users, many of whom have urged Katy to cancel her shows completely and offer people refunds due to the ‘cringe’ nature of her routines.

Katy is performing 84 concerts, which will include eight in the UK later this year, although time will tell whether the reviews improve by then, since her choreography is currently being called ‘the worst I have ever seen in my life’. Oh dear.

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