The recent 11-minute Blue Origin on April 14 flight that saw pop star Katy Perry in space has spurned some strong feelings of remorse for the “Roar” singer, who reportedly “regrets” the public spectacle the trip brought.
“Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing,” an insider told Daily Mail UK.
“What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it.”
The unnamed source also opened up about how Perry regrets “kissing the ground” after the rocket ship arrived back on Earth, as well as her “close-up camera moments” that saw Perry hold a daisy to the screen; as an homage to her daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, whom she shares with partner Orlando Bloom.
The Blue Origin flight that Perry went on lasted for 11 minutes. (Source: Blue Origin)
Katy, according to the source, “regrets sharing the daisy with the world”, and wishes that “the video footage from inside the pod was never shown” at all.
The Blue Origin flight also included media personality Gayle King, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research student Amanda Nguyễn, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and journalist (as well as Jeff Bezos’ fiancee) Lauren Sánchez.
The trip was widely criticised online for its massive environmental impact and overall ridiculousness, and it didn’t take long for folks all across the globe to speak out against it.
“That space mission this morning? That’s end-time shit. Like, this is beyond parody,” model and author Emily Ratajkowski said in a TikTok earlier this week.
“Saying 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?”
Environmental criticism over Perry partaking in the flight — which, despite being fueled by liquid oxygen and hydrogen, produced more greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere than an average person will produce in a lifetime — was especially high following Perry’s comments that described the trip as a “benefit for the Earth”.
“It’s about this wonderful world that we see out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth,” Perry said in a post-flight interview with NBC News.
“I think from up there we will think, oh my god we have to protect our mother [Earth].”
Perry was also featured in a video for UNICEF a decade ago in 2015, which sees the pop star discussing the effects of “man-made climate change” on disadvantaged communities.
The insider also revealed that Perry “never expected this backlash” and was “disheartened” by it.
“Despite the accusations she is still an environmentalist,” the insider wrote.
Perry has yet to address the public scrutiny over the Blue Origin trip.
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