14 DAY TRIAL // Katy Perry comes from a very religious family, as her fans must already know. Her mother and father are always traveling across the country to preach to people and, according to a new report, they’re still referring to her as to a “devil child.”
It’s no secret that Katy’s parents don’t approve of their daughter’s stage outfits or choice of music / lyrics.
However, just recently, Keith Perry, her dad, shocked again when he told his congregation that she was a “devil child” who needed “healing,” British tabloid The Sun writes.
He also urged his listeners to “pray for Katy” because only that could save her now.
“They ask how can I preach if I produce a girl who sang about kissing another girl?” Keith said, referring to Katy’s breakout hit “I Kissed a Girl.”
“I was at a concert of Katy’s where there were 20,000. I’m watching this generation and they were going at it. It almost looked like church,” he added.
“I stood there and wept and kept on weeping and weeping. They’re loving and worshipping the wrong thing,” Katy’s dad added.
According to The Sun, he ended his sermon by asking for donations, “saying they need ‘not one or two dollars, but 20s’ so they can go to Switzerland.”
Last January, Perry’s parents made headlines for saying that her divorce from British comedian Russell Brand was a blessing and a gift from God because interest in their relationship drove more people inside the church to listen to them.
Katy never publicly addressed remarks as these mentioned above, but she did say in several interviews that her strictly religious parents could not see eye to eye with her on her music and fashion.
The irony here, The Sun points out, is that her parents probably made “millions off her” so, if they did, they should probably try to be nicer, at least.