{"id":159582,"date":"2025-11-29T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/159582\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:48:05","slug":"celebrity-crib-sheet-katy-perry-has-spent-all-year-in-the-headlines-here-are-the-six-things-you-need-to-know-katy-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/159582\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity crib sheet: Katy Perry has spent all year in the headlines \u2013 here are the six things you need to know | Katy Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? No? Just Katy Perry then. Seven months since her sense-defying jaunt into space, life on planet Earth hasn\u2019t let up for the embattled hitmaker. She\u2019s back in the headlines this week, implied to be raiding the pockets of a \u201cdisabled veteran\u201d while facing scrutiny for her somewhat inexplicable new romance with Justin Trudeau<\/a>. Yes, that Justin Trudeau. Shall we?<\/p>\n

1. Perry wins in court, but loses online
By one metric, such as \u201crelative to the rest of 2025\u201d, this might have been a good week for Katy Perry. Since 2020, she has been embroiled in a legal battle against Carl Westcott, who sold her an eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom mansion in Montecito for $15m. Westcott then attempted to renege on the deal, claiming to have been incapacitated by painkillers (prescribed after a back operation) when signing the paperwork. A judge ruled in Perry\u2019s favour in May last year, finding that Westcott was sound of mind when the sale went through. This week, another judge ruled that Perry was owed $1.8m in damages. This sounds like a win, you might think \u2013 except Perry had pushed for Westcott to pay $4.7m, and it\u2019s been widely written up as Perry money-grubbing from an \u201c85-year-old disabled veteran\u201d<\/a>. To give military.com<\/a>\u2019s headline, from earlier in the dispute in 2023: \u201cKaty Perry Is Fighting a Dying, Elderly Veteran to Force Him to Sell His Home.\u201d It is true that Westcott served in the 101st Airborne Division, is 85 years old and seriously ill with incurable Huntington\u2019s disease. But the insistent framing may say more about Perry\u2019s unenviable position as pop culture\u2019s preferred punching bag.<\/p>\n

Perry told fans she\u2019ll \u2018keep looking to the light\u2019 during a challenging year. Photograph: Kevin Mazur\/Kevin MazurGetty Images for iHeartRadio<\/p>\n

Side note: you may recall that this is not Perry\u2019s first long-running legal dispute with an elderly person over property. In 2015, she was thwarted in her attempt to buy a former convent in Los Angeles by its former residents, who were reportedly unmoved by her attempt to win them over by showing them the Jesus tattoo on her wrist and singing a hymn. Sister Rita Callanan, 77, told the LA Times<\/a>: \u201cI found her videos \u2026 I wasn\u2019t happy with any of it.\u201d In 2018, another nun locked in the legal battle against Perry collapsed and died<\/a> during a court hearing.<\/p>\n

2. The Blue Origin space-flight saga continues to burn bright \u2026<\/p>\n

Perry kissing the ground upon her return to Earth. Photograph: Blue Origin\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

As of this year, Perry risks being remembered primarily for her participation in the all-female Blue Origin flight, widely criticised as a small step for women and a giant leap in idiocy for humankind. Perry spent 11 minutes in space; seven months later, she is still copping flak for being not only the junket\u2019s highest-profile passenger but also its hammiest. She sang What a Wonderful World in space, broadcast a print-out of her tour setlist to the onboard camera, and extravagantly fell to her knees to kiss the ground upon her return. On Thursday Perry\u2019s fellow space cadet, Gayle King, took some responsibility<\/a> for Perry\u2019s suborbital shenanigans, telling Ruthie\u2019s Table 4 podcast that she only sang after pressure from her fellow passengers. On their descent, as they broke through the Earth-space boundary, \u201cwe said to Katy Perry, \u2018Are you gonna sing Roar? Are you gonna sing Firework?\u2019\u201d King said. Per King\u2019s account, Perry responded: \u201cShut the bleep up. I\u2019m not going to sing a song. And if I was, I\u2019m not going to sing any of my own freaking songs.\u201d Perry landed on the Louis Armstrong classic just as the rocket broke through the Earth\u2019s planetary bounds. \u201cIt was just so special,\u201d said King. King justified her own participation on Blue Origin as part of her new year\u2019s resolution to \u201copen [herself] up to new adventures\u201d. She had meant with regard to dating, King added, but going to space was good too.<\/p>\n

3. \u2026 though some doubt that it happened at all
While the rest of us struggled to make sense of the Blue Origin saga, some independent thinkers claimed to have figured it out: the girlboss mission to space was in fact a cover-up to convince us that the Earth isn\u2019t flat. The conspiracy theory was taken up<\/a> when some online footage showed the door to the spaceship being opened from the inside, moments before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos opened it from the outside. For some, this was proof enough that the entire trip was staged<\/a>. Regrettably: it happened.<\/p>\n

4. Perry has been brought crashing back down to Earth
Two weeks after Perry\u2019s not-so-triumphant return to terra firma, a group of her fans (or KatyCats, as they self-identify) clubbed together to show their support for the beleaguered star, paying for a digital billboard in New York\u2019s Times Square to broadcast, for 24 hours, their \u201cboundless, unwavering and eternal\u201d love. Responding to the gesture on Instagram, Perry admitted to being<\/a> \u201cbattered and bruised\u201d by the Blue Origin backlash and online efforts to turn her into a \u201chuman pi\u00f1ata\u201d, but nonetheless determined to \u201ckeep looking to the light\u201d. But Perry\u2019s decision (as stated on Instagram) to remove \u201cperfect\u201d from her vocabulary proved grimly prophetic, with her Lifetimes tour (as advertised in space) receiving mixed reviews<\/a> and yet more online ridicule.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mixed reviews\u2019 \u2026 performing on the Lifetimes tour in Mexico City. Photograph: Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Katy Perry<\/p>\n

5. Love no longer Blooms
In July, Perry confirmed her split<\/a> from the actor Orlando Bloom, her fiance of six years, with whom she shares a five-year-old daughter Daisy Dove. The Blue Origin flight was reportedly a source of contention between the couple, with Bloom allegedly saying it<\/a> was \u201cembarrassing\u201d, \u201ccringeworthy\u201d and \u201clooked ridiculous\u201d during an argument. In the immediate aftermath of the split, Bloom sought solace in the wisdom of Jung, according to a spate of quotes posted to Instagram<\/a>. A few months later, at Halloween, a photo of him posing with a woman dressed up as Perry on the Blue Origin flight went viral (though online speculation that she was his new girlfriend was quickly disproved<\/a>).<\/p>\n

6. A romance too good to be Trudeau?<\/p>\n

Justin Trudeau \u2026 \u2018They are both smart and love to talk about serious issues.\u2019 Photograph: Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

An assumed silver lining of Perry\u2019s 2025 has been her reportedly finding love \u2013 with none other than the former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau (who separated from Sophie Gr\u00e9goire, his wife of 18 years, in August 2023<\/a>). The pair were spotted together during an apparent dinner date in Montreal in late July<\/a>, then Trudeau was spotted at Perry\u2019s concert. But the mindboggling match didn\u2019t receive much coverage. More than three months later, however, Perry and Trudeau seem to be a genuine item. In October, they were photographed together on Perry\u2019s luxury yacht in California, locked in what might fairly be described<\/a> as \u201ca steamy embrace\u201d. Even the Daily Mail didn\u2019t seem quite able to believe it, reporting on the<\/a> \u201ceye-popping pictures\u201d and \u201croaming hands\u201d. But a source was eager to quell any suggestion that the attraction might be purely physical, informing People magazine<\/a>: \u201cthey are both smart and love to talk about serious issues \u2026 The romance has merit\u201d. Later, Perry and Trudeau made their first public appearance<\/a> together, photographed hand-in-hand outside the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris after Perry\u2019s 41st birthday celebrations.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Gr\u00e9goire alluded to her ex\u2019s high-profile new romance, telling a podcast<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re all human beings and stuff affects us.\u201d Well, sure. Gr\u00e9goire continued along the high road, saying that she chose \u201cto listen to the music instead of the noise\u201d \u2013 but it\u2019s safe to assume she\u2019ll be skipping Teenage Dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? No? Just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-159582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}