Katy Perry has announced that she has been forced to cancel two major shows.
In a fresh blow for the star, she took to Instagram on Monday to confirm the concerts in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 1 and 2 were off after the stadium hosting the gigs was not built in time.
The pop icon, 40, wrote: ‘Sadly, I learned that the construction of Arena Guadalajara will not be complete for their scheduled shows next week, which includes mine on May 1 and 2.
‘Last week I sent my team to the Arena to make sure there wasn’t anything we could do to make this happen but it was evident when they arrived that the venue was not ready or safe to receive my show or an audience.
‘I wish I could fix this but it is beyond my control. You guys mean the world to me and we have all been on such a beautiful journey together that I will be thinking about how I can create something special for the fans in Guadalajara in the future.
‘I love you ALL.’
Katy Perry has been dealt massive blow and had to deliver the heartbreaking news that she’s been forced to cancel two shows days after her Blue Origin space flight (pictured in 2015)
The bad news comes after the star joined an all-female crew on the Blue Origin fleet that headed to space last week
The pair of Guadalajara shows were supposed to come during Katy’s third stop in a packed Mexican leg of her Lifetimes world tour, after three concerts in Mexico City and two in Monterrey.
She is then set to kick off her US tour in Houston on May 7 before performing 25 times in the country, either side of trips to Australia and Canada.
Her subsequent European leg will include a much-anticipated trip to the O2 with two shows on October 13 and 14.
The bad news comes after Katy joined Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, as well as NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and activist Amanda Nguyen, on the all-female Blue Origin fleet that headed to space last week.
Despite their seemingly harmless intentions, the optics of the mission have since been described as ‘tone deaf’ and ’embarrassing’.
Following the backlash, it seems the Roar singer has been experiencing second thoughts about her flight with the space exploration company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.
An inside source called the criticism unexpected for the former American Idol judge and ‘disheartening’ for the rest of the all-female crew.
‘Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it,’ the insider exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com.
The pop icon, 40, took to Instagram on Monday to confirm that the concerts in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 1 and 2 were off after the stadium hosting the gigs was not built in time
On arrival back to earth, Katy immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the pod, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground
Perhaps the most ridiculed moment from the event was when the pop star emerged from the Blue Origin capsule.
She immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the pod, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.
Katy then waxed poetic about feeling ‘super connected to love’, thanked a reporter who called her an astronaut, and declared how their all-female journey ‘has always been about love and belonging’.
‘It’s not about singing my songs. It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,’ she said in a post-flight interview.
‘And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.’
It didn’t take long, however, for the public to slam Katy’s behaviour as dramatic and over-the-top, especially considering NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were recently stranded in space for more than nine months.
The source admitted that the star now regrets ‘kissing the ground’ after the flight as well as her ‘close-up camera moments’ inside the capsule – where she held a daisy up to the camera, promoted the setlist to her upcoming tour, and sang the lyrics to What A Wonderful World all while suspended in microgravity.
It was previously revealed that Katy planned to bring the daisy to space as a ‘beautiful tribute’ to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, who she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
(L-R) US TV personality Gayle King, Bahamian-US former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, US journalist Lauren Sanchez, US research scientist Amanda Nguyen, Katy and US film producer Kerianne Flynn posing in their space suits
The singer also took the opportunity to promote her upcoming Lifetimes tour by showing off the setlist while suspended in microgravity
It wasn’t just social media users who criticised the all-female Blue Origin space mission either.
In fact, a slew of fellow celebrities – including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer – have panned the spectacle as a frivolous publicity campaign for Jeff’s space company.
In addition to the all-female crew’s bizarre post-flight behaviour, a number of social media activists couldn’t help but question the environmental impact such a space mission will have on the planet.
Jeff’s rocket releases water vapour as a byproduct, resulting in virtually no direct carbon emissions.
But Eloise Marais, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at University College London, told the BBC the water vapour is still an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas that can contribute to global warming.
This was surprising for fans considering Katy’s long history of warning about the effects of climate change, most notably in a video she filmed for UNICEF in 2015.
The musician also became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2013 to highlight the effects of climate change on the world’s most disadvantaged populations, mainly children.
