Katy Perry Said Russell Brand Made Jokes About Her to His Audiences When He Didn’t Know She Was Watching
Katy Perry and Russell Brand’s marriage was short-lived. Perry said that she was deeply in love with Brand while they were together. Still, she became aware of some problems with their relationship. While she found him funny, she didn’t appreciate the jokes Brand made at her expense when he didn’t realize she was watching him do stand up.
Katy Perry said Russell Brand joked about her to his audience
Perry and Brand’s busy careers made it difficult for them to see each other, even while they were married. Because of this, Perry said she occasionally dropped in at Brand’s shows to surprise him. When he didn’t know she was in the audience, though, he made jokes about her.
“[He was] hysterical in some ways,” Perry told Vogue in 2013. “Until he started making jokes about me and he didn’t know I was in the audience, because I had come to surprise him at one of his shows. So. Hysterical to a point.”
After they divorced, Brand continued to joke about his marriage and sex life with Perry.
Katy Perry said Russell Brand didn’t like seeing her in a position of power
Perry believed that the breakdown of her marriage had a great deal to do with her career. While Brand said he wanted an equal partner, she thought he disliked watching her thrive in her work.
“At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they’re like, I can’t handle the equalness,” she said. “He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour.”
She admitted that she blamed herself for the split, but was eventually able to let go of this feeling.
“So that was really hurtful, and it was very controlling, which was upsetting,” she said. “I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending, but then I found out the real truth, which I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day. I let go and I was like: This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me. So I have moved on from that.”
He admitted her fame became a problem in their marriage
While Brand did not mention feeling jealousy or resentment toward Perry, he admitted her fame had something to do with their split.
“Katy was obviously very, very occupied and very busy,” he said on the show John Bishop in Conversation, per Today. “I was very occupied and very busy — not to the same degree, I recognize. The marriage didn’t last for a very long time, and I think that is to do with the undulated nature of fame and that, living in those conditions and what was happening.”
In the years after her divorce, Perry entered into a relationship with Orlando Bloom, with whom she shares a child.
