{"id":379697,"date":"2025-12-30T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379697\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:00:07","slug":"amanda-nguyen-says-backlash-after-blue-origin-flight-with-katy-perry-led-to-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379697\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Nguyen says backlash after Blue Origin flight with Katy Perry led to depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1386589_084902_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Amanda Nguyen says backlash after Blue Origin flight with Katy Perry led to depression\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen has spoken about the emotional toll she faced following Blue Origin\u2019s first all-female spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen, who became the first Vietnamese woman to go to space during the April flight, was part of Flight NS-31 alongside Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren S\u00e1nchez, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn. <\/p>\n<p>While the mission was historic, it also triggered worldwide criticism over its cost and the role of private space travel.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen recently admitted on Instagram that she experienced a deep depression in the months after the mission.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on December 28, Nguyen said the aftermath sent her into a depression she feared \u201cmight last for years.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She added that her achievements and dreams were overshadowed by misogyny and public backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen said the scale of the coverage made even limited negativity feel overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>She described feeling like \u201ccollateral damage\u201d and said she struggled to leave her home, at times unable to get out of bed or speak without breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the harsh experience, Nguyen acknowledged that positive support ultimately helped her recover and credited her friends, community, and time spent reconnecting with her roots in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Eight months later, Nguyen said the emotional weight had begun to lift, without taking as long as she once feared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen has spoken about the emotional toll she faced following Blue Origin\u2019s first all-female&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-379697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}