Katy Perry has broken her silence following the backlash to her historic Blue Origin space mission.
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.
The 11-minute flight carried the Roar hitmaker along with 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.
Celebrities like Olivia Munn, Emily Ratajkowski, and Amy Schumer have blasted the space trip, calling it “disgusting” and “planet-destroying”.
Perry ignored the uproar on Wednesday, instead announcing on Instagram that she has gone “back to reality” and is busy looking after her four-year-old daughter, Daisy.
The Firework singer shared a snap on her Instagram Story of Daisy’s lunchbox, which she had packed with a sandwich shaped like a star, raspberries, carrot sticks, Babybel cheese, pineapple chunks, and a smoothie drink.
“Back to the best reality, packing school lunch,” she wrote alongside a daisy emoji and love heart emoji.
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.
“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.”
Comedian Amy Schumer, actress Julia Fox, and director and actress Olivia Wilde also waded into the backlash online.
Perry was pictured tearfully kissing the ground and raising a daisy to the sky when she returned to Earth after the space mission.
She sang Louis Armstrong’s What A Wonderful World during the flight and later revealed she feels “super connected to love” and will write a song about the experience.
