Katy Perry Reacts to Online Hate and Shares Uplifting Message

Katy Perry is leading with love.

The “Woman’s World” singer, 40, penned a long thank-you note to her biggest supporters after various fans took out a billboard ad dedicated to her in New York City’s Times Square.

The billboard congratulated Perry on completing the first week of her Lifetimes Tour, which kicked off in Mexico City on April 23. “@katyperry has taught us that love is the key that opens every door,” fan account Katy Perry Brasil captioned an Instagram video showing off the ad on Tuesday, April 29. “Today, we wanted to remind her that she is never alone; our love for her is boundless, unwavering, and eternal. So, for the next 24 hours a very special message from her katycats all over the world will be playing at Times Square.”

In the comments, Perry expressed her gratitude and reflected on how she’s perceived online.

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“I’m so grateful for you guys. We’re in this beautiful and wild journey together. I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond,” Perry wrote. “I love you guys and have grown up together with you and am so excited to see you all over the world this year!”

The singer went on to get candid about how she deals with online criticism and mockery. (Earlier this month, Perry, Gayle King and others were called out for their involvement in an all-women Blue Origin space flight, which some celebrities and social media users deemed frivolous.)

Perry wrote, “Please know I am ok, I have done a lot work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me. My therapist said something years ago that has been a game changer, ‘no one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself’ and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it’s an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it.”

“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 continued.

“What’s real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth,” Perry wrote, referring to her latest tour. “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 ♾️ I’m not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary.”

Perry concluded her comment, “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 ♥️.”