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Was Katy Perry at the 2025 Met Gala? Viral Photos of the Pop Star Whip Fans Into a Frenzy
Katy Perry had the internet in a frenzy during the 2025 Met Gala, thanks to some photos that showed her dressed to the nines at the high-fashion event. But with conflicting reports and social media chatter swirling, fans were left wondering if the pop star actually attended the 2025 Met Gala.
Was Katy Perry at the 2025 Met Gala?
It’s understandable that people thought Katy attended the 2025 Met Gala. After all, there were photos of her posing on the red carpet in a dramatic black latex gown with a pinstripe blazer, right? However, thanks to the power of AI, those pics turned out to be entirely fabricated, and she did not attend.
Katy Perry Responded to the Viral AI Photos
The “Teenage Dream” singer addressed the snaps via her Instagram on May 6, 2025.
“Couldn’t make it to the MET, I’m on The Lifetimes Tour (see you in Houston tomorrow IRL!!),” Katy captioned the photos. “P.s. this year I was actually with my mom so she’s safe from the bots but I’m praying for the rest of y’all.”
This wasn’t the first time AI-generated pictures of Katy had fooled people into thinking she attended the Met Gala. In 2024, the same thing happened, and the photos were realistic enough to even fool her own mom.
“Ha Feather! Didn’t know you went to the Met,” Katy’s mom, Mary Perry, wrote in a text shared by the “Fireworks” artist at the time. “What a gorgeous gown, you look like the Rose Parade, you are your own float lol.”
Katy’s last appearance at the Met Gala was in 2022.
Why Katy Perry Skipped the 2025 Met Gala
While fans were busy zooming in on every detail of the AI-generated look, Katy was actually hundreds of miles away performing on her Lifetimes Tour. The singer had a concert scheduled in Houston, Texas, around the same time as the Met Gala, which is why she couldn’t make the annual fashion event.
Between her tour dates and her recent Blue Origin spaceflight, the 2025 Met Gala just wasn’t on Katy’s calendar this year.
On April 14, 2025, she joined an all-female crew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket for a suborbital flight that briefly took them beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The historic mission also included journalist Gayle King, philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics researcher Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn. The flight marked the first all-female crewed spaceflight since 1963 and put a spotlight on the growing presence of women in space exploration.
However, the flight received a hefty amount of negativity and criticism, which Katy eventually responded to online.
“When the ‘online’ world tries to make me a human Piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed,” she wrote in a comment via Instagram.
She continued, “Please know I am ok, I have done a lot [of] work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me,” she continued. “My therapist said something years ago that has been a game changer, ‘no one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself’ and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it’s an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it.”
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