Lily Allen apologises for ‘being mean' to Katy Perry about ‘out-of-touch' Blue Origin space flight
The Smile singer acknowledged her 'own internalised misogyny' after discussing Meghan Markle's haters in Monday's episode of her Miss Me? podcast.
'Because we're talking about a very famous female person who's a bit divisive, I would actually like to apologise for being mean about Katy Perry last week,' Allen said.
'There was actually no need for me to bring her name into it, and it was my own internalised misogyny.'
Allen, 39, admitted to singling out Perry, 40, despite the E.T. singer being joined by five other women on the galactic excursion: Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos' fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, journalist Gayle King, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
'I've been thinking about it a lot, and it was just completely unnecessary to pile on with her,' the English star said. 'I do disagree with what it was that they did, but she wasn't the only person that did it.'
Allen explained that Perry was 'possibly the most famous' person on the flight and therefore 'the one that divides people the most.'
'There was something in me that decided to choose her,' she said before adding, 'Anyway, I just, I'm really sorry.'
The LDN singer put herself in the former American Idol judge's shoes and shared that she would feel terrible if the roles were reversed.
'I would have been hurt if it had been me and someone in my industry used me and my name. I'm sorry,' she added. 'I'm sorry, Katy Perry. I know you don't listen to the show, but yeah, sorry.'
Allen initially ripped into Perry's highly criticised space jaunt last week.
'Do we want to talk about Katy Perry and her mates all going up to space for 12 minutes?' she asked her podcast co-host, Miquita Oliver, who replied, 'I think that if they're going to go to space for 12 minutes, we can talk about it for 10 seconds, and that's about all it deserves.'
The Fear vocalist went on to question the 'point' of the trip and said it was 'so out of touch.'
'We're on the brink of recession. People are really f***ing struggling to make ends meet and get food on their table. I don't know about how things feel in London, but in New York, it's really f***ing expensive at the moment,' she said at the time.
'It's hard to leave the house without spending $500, and I'm not even joking. It's cheaper for me to DoorDash food, to get takeaway, than it is for me to go and get groceries and cook.'
While Allen said she is financially 'OK,' she felt it was 'glaringly obvious how f***ing hard it is to make it work in a city like this.'
'I know it's not necessarily a nationwide issue in terms of New York is definitely at the steeper end of the country than other places; it just seems like things are hard at the moment,' she said.
The F**k You singer then said Perry was sent to space for 'absolutely no f***ing reason.'
'It's like … we send people to space to discover things, like [for a] scientific reason, and the fact that they have made it some sort of feminist thing,' she said of the all-women crew.
The Dark Horse artist, for her part, briefly addressed the public backlash by asking the audience at her concert in Mexico City last week, 'Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?'
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