The singer opened up about struggles she dealt with through the years in an emotional interview about her new album.
Katy Perry is sharing everything with her fans.
The 32-year-old singer opened up about past suicidal thoughts during a live streamed therapy session to promote her new album, Witness, on Friday.
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During a meeting with Siri Sat Nam Singh, a licensed therapist who appears on Viceland’s The Therapist, Perry revealed that her 2013 song, « By the Grace of God, » was inspired by her former thoughts of suicide.
« I feel ashamed that I would have those thoughts, feel that low and that depressed, » she said, adding that the song was written « because I do believe in something much bigger than me and I call that god for me. »
« You can be right or you can be loved, » she added. « I just want to be loved. »
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The singer, whose real name is Katheryn Hudson, also opened up about her struggle to maintain her private and public image.
« People talk about my hair, right, and they don’t like it, or they wish that it was longer, » she said. « I so badly want to be Katheryn Hudson that I don’t even want to look like Katy Perry anymore sometimes, and that is a little bit of why I cut my hair. »
« I’m a bit more nerdy than everybody thinks I am, » she added. « I’m a big goofball. The fantasy of Katheryn went into Katy and made this bigger than life personality. »
Perry then revealed that she just recently « learned how to hug. »
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« I always thought it was like, you know, too intimate, like a sexual thing, » she shared. « Like, a hug is a sexual thing — someone’s gonna feel my boobs or something like that. And I didn’t realize that that’s not everybody’s intention. It’s just a hug. It’s just to like, connect. So I just learned that. »
The « Swish Swish » singer also recently talked about her infamous feud with Taylor Swift. See more in the video above.
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