It’s been three weeks since the pop star Katy Perry went to space. She did so for eleven minutes as part of Jeff Bezos’ all-female Blue Origin crew. Unfortunately for Perry, this has since blown up in her face. Indeed, the mission has been met with tons of backlash.
Carrie Underwood, who replaced Perry as a judge on American Idol this season, is now speaking out to rub some salt in the “Firework” singer’s wounds. Underwood has seemingly taken a thinly veiled dig at Perry for her Blue Origin space flight
Underwood Sounds Off On Perry
“The day I go to space will be when the good Lord decides my time on Earth here is done and he takes me home,” Underwood told Access Hollywood when asked about Perry’s space flight.
“So, that will be the day I leave this Earth,” she added.
Underwood’s fellow American Idol judge Lionel Richie also weighed in on Perry’s space flight.
“My first impression was, ‘Get out the capsule,'” he admitted. “It’s not that anything was going to go wrong. It’s just that I don’t like the phrase, ‘Never happened before.’ So I said, “You go right on girl.”
Richie went on to say that he has no plans in following Perry’s footsteps when it comes to going to space.
“I’m having trouble navigating earth and gravity,” he stated. “Just walking straight everyday is a daunting task at the point in my life.”
Check out Underwood and Richie’s full comments on this in the video below.
Perry’s Blue Origin Space Flight
Perry travelled to space on the Blue Origin flight on April 14. She was joined by CBS Mornings host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.
All of the women have been hit with backlash over the flight. However, Perry has taken the most heat by far. According to Daily Mail, Perry’s career has been “ruined” by this controversy.
Last week, Perry took to Instagram to admit that she feels “battered and bruised” in the wake of all the backlash that has poured in.
“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,” she stated. “What’s real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that.”
Related: Katy Perry ‘Regrets’ Blue Origin Space Flight As She Continues To Face Massive Backlash
Perry Doubles Down
“I’m not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, I’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,” Perry concluded.
Given all of the backlash that Perry has received as of late, she undoubtedly won’t be happy to see Underwood’s latest comments. Only time will tell if Perry’s career can ever truly recover from this!
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