Katy Perry brushes off family feud claims

Last Modified: 21 Aug 2008
Source: ITN

Katy Perry has insisted her parents are supportive of her music career, brushing off claims of a family feud.

The singer spoke out after her mother Mary Hudson, an evangelical Christian preacher, described her hit single I Kissed A Girl as "shameful and disgusting".

She had also admitted that she was "disappointed" in her daughter for using the track to "promote homosexuality".

But Perry said her parents are big fans of most songs on her album One of the Boys.

"I'm sure they opt out of singing I Kissed a Girl or Ur So Gay, but they're singing along to every other song on the record.

"They're just glad I'm not strung out, doing centrefolds and s**t like that."

Perry also claimed that there is no basis to suggestions that the lyrics to Ur So Gay are homophobic.

"I think gay people have a wonderful sense of humour. I think they'll get it and embrace it," she said. "It's an anthem for power of the people - for females, gays, exes, anybody who's been broken up with that wants to get over a guy."

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