Don't Cry, Katy Perry! We Didn't Mean It

Don't Cry, Katy Perry! We Didn't Mean It

By Joan Summers
Jul 01, 2025

After news broke of her divorce last week, I speculated that a public breakup might be exactly what Katy Perry needs to get through this career slump she finds herself in. Of course, almost immediately after I said it, videos surfaced of her crying onstage during the final performance in Australia for her Lifetimes World Tour.

I’m sorry, Katy Perry, I really didn’t mean to make you cry!

Now, it’s wildly presumptuous to assume that my reckless pen is to blame, considering she’s probably just grateful that fans came out from the far ends of the Australian outback to see her. Check out the video below, where she tells the crowd: “Thank you for always being there for me, Australia. Now let’s sing ‘Firework!’”

On the list of miscellaneous reasons for the tears, besides her fans, we have: Those quokkas she took selfies with, the comedown from filming herself spinning on the beach amongst a flock of birds, the state of the world and her unfolding divorce from Bloom. While quokkas would make me cry too, it’s most likely the divorce. As some will remember, this is not the first time a marriage has collapsed while the “I Kissed a Girl” songstress is on tour.

In 2012, Perry released Katy Perry: Part of Me, which was a tour documentary about her California Dreams Tour from the previous year. In between scenes of her performances, filmmakers also captured the implosion of her marriage to Russell Brand, who famously divorced her over text on that very tour. In one memorable scene, she clutches a gift from Brand while crying, before tearfully performing “The One That Got Away."

A quick scroll of the above tour video from Australia reveals fans not only remember the Brand divorce, but hate that partners keep breaking up with her during major career moments. One said: “the fact shes a mother this time with the man who left her and already seen with another woman. my heart breaks for her.” Bloom, as the user notes, is pointedly not crying in public, seemingly enjoying his time in Venice at the most-loathed wedding of the century.

It’s an artistic flourish to this story that might feel too heavy handed on the symbolism, were I to write it myself.

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