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- Katy Perry is officially among the most successful and

celebrated female entertainers on the planet

Since her 2008 debut, America's reigning pop queen

has sealed her place in music royalty.

- Hi everybody. Welcome to the behind-the-scenes

of the Hello Katy tour.

Ah!

Shh.

I think we should go and just say hi.

They might freak out a little bit.

Should we do it?

Yes? Yes? Yes?

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- Katy's assent to mega stardom has been so dramatic,

that she's the only woman in history to have

five number one singles from the same album.

Few know the real story of Katy's bumpy ride

to super stardom and how success very nearly passed her by.

- She was very, very, very, very nervous, literally shaking.

She was right next to me, and she was just,

like, her whole body was convulsing.

- It's been quite the journey.

I was signed to major labels and dropped.

They wanted me to be like whatever was popular,

like the Avril Lavigne, the Ashley Simpson,

the Kelly Clarkson at the time, who I-- I like those girls,

but I just wanted to be me.

When I was a kid, I grew up in this very sheltered,

kind of suppressive atmosphere.

- She wasn't allowed to watch any TV.

Bedtime stories were just Bible verses.

Church was all she knew.

- Her parents are Pentecostal ministers.

They came to the show in Paris

and they were very reserved people.

- And when everything went mad about Russell Brand and her,

and she was on the front cover of every magazine,

it was a weekly kind of Katy Perry fix.

- My comedy now is all about sort of domesticity

and looking after cats and burglar alarms

and oh, cleaning your teeth together

When it used to be about roaring through the London streets

with razor blades and ticker tape and glitter

all over your tongue.

- We're getting married, and we're gonna wear white.

- I was really surprised because they just met

and then all of a sudden they're getting married.

- It's extraordinary how when Katy and Russell

got together the speed at which they kind of

committed to each other.

- We interviewed Katy around the time she was about

to get married to Russell, and she said, you know,

when someone's the one you just know.

She's a real romantic like that.

- Katy was in her mid-twenties,

awash with sex hormones at that age.

Your biology is positively screaming

I want to find someone to have babies with.

- She was going with her gut instinct.

- Now, when you're awash with those hormones

and you connect at the kind of animal level,

then you don't make good choices.

- The romantic element I keep private

because it's between me and my lovely wife.

The crazy element, you've seen my books.

Waking up in rooms full of refugees,

hanging off of boats, arrested in crack houses.

I had a ridiculous life.

- When you break up after a whirlwind relationship,

you know people are thinking, I told you so.

And how foolish would you feel when you

had this ridiculously huge marriage in India,

and then it all falls apart, you know, like a year later.

- After coming through a dark period

and a dark time where I lost a lot of my self-confidence

because I was let down, or-- and I got very upset

in my personal life,

and so through that I lost a lot of my strength.

And I had to turn inward.

- You love who you love.

You can't make yourself stop dreaming

of who you're dreaming of you know?

- I don't know.

I still believe in love, most definitely.

I'm just gonna let that take the lead.

- One thing is certain, the ups and downs

of Katy Perry's spectacular life

will always work their way into her music.

There is much that's paradoxical about Katy Perry.

It's all part of her unique charm.

Behind the kittens and cupcake cuteness,

there lies a steely, unsentimental attitude

towards the industry that sustains her.

- I'm gonna take you on a little tour, no pun intended.

This is Vern.

He makes this happen, runs things.

That's where we keep all the bad people.

The bad fans.

- Katy Perry isn't a classic pop princess.

She's a real tigress.

- There are definitely two Katys.

She treated us very well, was very gracious.

Katy's personality is quite difficult to gauge because

she does seem to exist in two places,

and the Katy Perry persona has one personality

which is obviously the projection,

and then there's her.

- We don't have the damn strawberries.

Bradford, this sucks.

We don't have strawberries.

- You gave them all away last night.

- I gave my strawberries away last night.

We have these specially-made strawberries that you

can probably see all over the Internet

because we get them made.

They're larger than life. They're about this big.

And then we toss them out into the audience

and they kind of, like, bounce them around like beach balls.

- There were a couple of moments on the first two gigs

when the video screens didn't work.

A couple of the production managers got bawled out.

We saw them running away from the production office

sort of looking very disgruntled.

So she runs a tight ship, and she wasn't very happy about that.

- Where's my cherry Chapstick?

Bradford, do you have my cherry Chapstick?

A man should never have a woman's cherry Chapstick.

- Katy is very different from a lot of stars.

While we were there rehearsing,

she was just nice enough to introduce herself

to everyone, and she didn't come in like she--

she owned the place, even though it was

all about her, you know, it was her show.

She was just really humble, which was nice to work with.

- Hello.

Oh, yes, my microphone stand.

Hold on, stay right here.

- When we got onto her tour bus, that was definitely

the peek behind the curtain, and you felt like

you were meeting the real Katy there.

And having just been exposed to Katy Perry for four weeks,

and that larger-than-life persona, and she looks like

a doll, and her eyelashes are insane and, you know,

she's wearing six-inch heels whenever you see her,

so she towers over you, and then you meet

the real person and she's just this sort of

quite fragile girl in a Juicy couture track suit

and some Uggs with her hair in a scrunchie.

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- So I like a theme, like I told you, kittens and fruit.

I don't know why.

- I would expect from Katy to turn up

in some glamorous outfit, like, looking amazing, and she just

turned up in track suit bottoms, hat, sunglasses,

and she was like, let's go.

- What you see is what you get.

She's like a normal girl.

- I'm not a very complex girl. I just like certain things.

And so I had them make an LED fruit-glittered microphone stand.

LED lights basically this lights up

into different colors of the rainbow when it's on,

and it can pulsate and it can flash different--

different rhythms and different colors to match the song

if it's-- like a song called "Hot and Cold,"

it will go up and down, and these fruit glitter.

And it's kind of heavy.

And then I have my microphone crystallized with cherries.

It's these little things that keep me really happy

to be on the road 365 days out of the year.

- I also have danced for Pink.

Comparing those two, Katy was very, very much

like a new girl to the scene,

very shy, kind of smiled to us,

whereas Pink was with us on stage, right guys,

like, directing us literally.

So the difference, you know, was massive at the time.

- So I have to tell you, I started--

everybody always asks, is there something you do before a show.

And I never used to have a ritual per se,

besides warming up and stretching, but then

after singing every other day for, like, five days for

a whole year and a half-- five days a week,

my voice started getting a little bit tired,

and I needed to come up with more of a ritual.

And my very close friend and manager said,

when Roy Orbison was alive, he used to drink a Coca-Cola

and have a Tylenol an hour before his show,

and he put on a performance like no other,

every single night.

And K.D. Lang does it as well, and I guess I started doing it.

So every night, an hour before my show,

I have some Coca-Cola and a Tylenol.

And I don't know if it's good or bad, but I think

it just messes with my mind to let me know

we're gonna have a great show.

It's probably not the greatest idea

because caffeine isn't usually good for singers.

I'm having-- I'm probably freaking out so many vocalists

that are watching this right now.

They're like, that is a horrible idea.

Well, Roy Orbison did it, and he's a classic.

Come on!

- She seemed very young and quite vulnerable, and yeah,

she seemed tired, but that's to be expected.

You know, the weight of the world is on her shoulders.

She is literally carrying all of these people

in this huge sort of monolithic career

she's built for herself.

- My mother never let me drink Coca-Cola.

That's really why I think I do it.

- The amount of pressure those thousands of people

that are out there every night waiting to see her.

- The pressure on Katy would be absolutely enormous

to keep going the way she does.

But you have to remember, someone who makes it

to the top in the world that she has, is incredibly focused.

- Trapped in an elevator.

- They are determined, they are goal-directed.

Those are psychological traits that set them up to get there.

As long as she has a good support group around her,

she will manage the pressure around her.

- She's very much in her bubble and looked after.

- We're here.

- A lot of her friends from back home are part of the crew.

She wants to keep them around her, which I thought

was really charming and,

you know, suggests she's a really good person.

- This is my band. - Hi.

- Hello, random television camera.

- We have one, only-Japanese speaking person in the band.

He doesn't speak English

- I can't understand a word you're saying.

- We only make fun of him.

- She was there for everyone,

and she was just working as a whole team.

- I hate to keep on using the word gracious,

but it describes her behavior.

- She's an amazing artist and a performer, but she's real,

and that's why I think people just absolutely love her.

- Should we tell the camera who is here tonight?

- Her publicist always says, oh, Katy's so funny,

like, she just doesn't take herself too seriously.

Just you can have a laugh with her.

- Okay. So my --

- There's a rumor Prince Harry--

- Prince Harry is here. - Not William.

- I love a hot gin.

No, I don't. Um, really --

- Just kidding. - Just kidding.

My sister is a ginger.

I've had enough of that in my life already.

- She's really sort of charismatic and really fun

and bubbly, just a barrel of laughs to go out with.

- I think she's fabulous.

You know, she's a wonderful role model.

She gets out there, she does her own thing.

- I'm very independent.

I can take care of myself, and yeah,

I want to cuddle sometimes, and yeah, I get hungry sometimes.

And I'm nice generally, but I want to do my own thing.

- She's not afraid to be normal.

- That's definitely part of her personality

and something that she's always trying to project

that she's approachable and, you know, down to earth.

- Come on, show us the-- this is the prom king.

This is the prom queen.

I always want to really relatable, like,

when I reach out there, I want them to be able to reach back.

Every night I go into the crowd, and I get, like,

into the crowd and, you know, after I come back,

everyone's like, you're crazy, you got to stop doing that.

And I'm like, why? They don't expect it.

That's that one extra thing that they don't expect

that's kind of like, wow, she's normal,

or she's like a real person.

I hate the idea that I'm any different than them

or that they couldn't do this.

I hate when musicians think they're better

than other people, or they stop relating or connecting.

I think it's all about the connection,

and I always want to connect with my audience.

I want them to know that we're kind of on the same team.

We are on the same team.

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- Thank you so much.

- Since the inception of her career,

Katy Perry has become a global brand.

In the midst of promoting her music,

the perpetually busy star has been building

a multimillion dollar product empire.

With an impressive array of commercial achievements

ranging from album sales and merchandise to touring

and endorsements, in every category,

Katy is at the forefront.

- I'm really happy to present Purr here in London

first and foremost, next week in New York City,

it will be fantastic.

- Does it represent Katy? - I think it does.

- Yeah. Yeah. - It's very, very sexy, so --

- Yeah. - I want to go and buy it.

- We just think she's amazing.

- Katy is the ultimate businesswoman,

has endorsed lots and lots of products.

She's a true businesswoman.

- She has three fragrances.

- Killer Queen, Purr, and Meow.

- She has, like, her pop chips endorsement,

and her GHD endorsement.

- She has had a range of nails, and a range

of nail varnish from OPI.

- She also has her own range of fake eyelashes.

- Her statement look is her false eyelashes.

- She's the face of the cosmetics brand Cover Girl,

and she's also had a role in the console game, Sims 3.

- This is a woman who is very astute and very clever.

She was the first person to wear tiger print nails

or put Smurfs on her nails.

And in fact, when she wore some yellow nail varnish

to the MTV awards, it sold out afterwards.

- It's important to kind of have a brand

and create your own, you know,

excitement, but Katy does that,

but the music is always first.

- Hearts on my butt.

We look smashing, don't we? Okay, not really.

I'm not a one-hit wonder. I'm not a two-hit wonder.

Hopefully not a three-hit wonder.

I'm just happy.

I'm happy that it's happened

and it's happened to go for so long.

- Before she roared onto the pop scene

as the incarnation of a global megabrand,

Katy Perry's formative years were less starry.

In the 1960s, Katy's father, Keith Hudson

lived a hedonistic, party lifestyle.

He was part of the Strawberry Fields Forever group,

a hippy movement which dealt in LSD

and campaigned for controversial drug advocate,

Timothy Leary, to be elected as governor.

- Keith and Mary Hudson, they both actually

had kind of wild child pasts.

A typical hippie Keith was.

He's known to have taken LSD in the past.

And one day, I'm not sure if he'd been taking LSD

or not that day, but he was in an apple orchard

when he suddenly had these amazing visions

of Bible verses in the sky,

and he knew that his calling was to become a preacher.

- Katy's mother, Mary Perry, was an equally free spirit.

A flamboyant wild child who traveled the world,

and dated legendary guitarist, Jimi Hendrix.

- Mary, she was a bit of wild child in her past as well.

She used to hang out with Jimi Hendrix at one time.

And then she had gone off to Zimbabwe.

She married a one-legged race car driver,

but that didn't work out.

She came back and she became a news reporter,

and it was while covering a church event

that she ran into Keith.

She fell for him, and she fell for God on the same day.

- The couple gave up life in the fast lane.

They found God, and Katy's destiny

as a preacher's child was set.

The contrast between Katy's past and present

couldn't be more stark.

Born in 1984 in the sleepy coastal village of

Goleta, California, Katy grew up in a happy,

but sheltered, household,

utterly protected from the outside world.

- I love Easter.

If Easter could be every single holiday,

that would be perfect for me.

Because I remember loving Easter so much,

dressing up in those big dresses and the hats

and going to church, and I'm like, yes

I look like an Easter egg. I'm so happy right now.

I'm only ten years old. I don't know.

I'm attracted to colors and things that make people smile.

- Katy was born in 1984 in a very quiet part of California.

- She comes from a really sweet family, the all-American family.

- Katy has two siblings, a brother David and sister Angela.

- She's very close with her brother and sister.

- Her sister was on the tour with us,

and she seemed to interact with her a lot

and delegate stuff to her.

They're quite close and they work together.

- When I tour, I take my sister with me.

She's essential.

She doesn't care how many records I've sold

or what I'm doing or who I'm playing for or,

you know, yadda yadda yadda. She puts me in my place.

She loves putting me in my place actually.

And I-- I fearfully respect her.

Because of that I have this, like, fear, you know those--

that fear you have of your parents

when you're little of like, okay, yes.

It's kind of the same fear I have of my sister.

We love each other, from a distance.

I'm just kidding. It's like Bodyguard.

No, it's not. Hopefully, God, it's not.

- Christianity played a huge part

in Katy Hudson's upbringing.

Her devout Pentecostal parents

had strict beliefs and practices.

- She had a very unusual childhood

and was sort of cocooned from normal society.

- Both of her parents are pastors.

They're very religious.

- They were extremely strict parents,

but it was more the value and the very strict

conditions that her parents put on the children

that affected her somewhat.

- Coming from her family religious background

and stuff, it must have been extra hard to make it.

- The religious upbringing that Katy had would have had

a tremendous impact on her personality.

- Katy's come out publicly and said quite a lot

of negative things about her childhood.

She in fact once said she didn't have a childhood.

- Katy's parents became traveling ministers.

From the age of three, her childhood was

spent traveling across America as her parents

founded new churches.

With no fixed home, the family lived in Oklahoma,

Arizona, and Florida.

Freelance ministry is not a lucrative line of work.

The family gave their all to God

and often struggled financially.

- Between the ages of 3 and 11, she actually traveled a lot

with the family because they were traveling from town

to town preaching this fire and brimstone.

You know, hell, Satan, it was all very real to her.

- You've got to remember that those sort of

quite serious religions like the Pentecostal religion

that her parents are a part of, lay down a very strict path.

You know, you have to follow that path.

Katy's not a natural follower.

- In the Hudson household,

the devil was made out to be a real person.

Her mother, in fact, banned the word "lucky"

entirely from the household because she said

it had connotations of Lucifer, the devil.

- She did have to rebel against her background

and her upbringing, so it probably took

quite a lot of strength for her to do it

and that's what we really admire about her.

- It's surprising because she certainly wears

some pretty full-on outfits.

- She's cheeky.

- Her past was a lot more sort of good girl, really,

whereas now I think she's got a bit of a naughty side.

- And there's my cherry Chapstick.

We have a couple versions of this Cherry Chapstick,

a larger one and then the little sister one.

And I bring this out every night because for some reason

even though "I Kissed a Girl" has been playing for maybe

a year and a few months now, people still forget

to bring their Cherry Chapsticks to the show

It's very perplexing.

All these girls in the front row forget

to bring their cherry Chapstick, so then they miss

the opportunity to lock lips with yours truly.

So luckily for them, I bring my own.

I carry it thousands of miles.

It's been to Japan, it's been to Moscow, it's been to London.

Well, we're in London.

It's been everywhere and we have to get it cleaned

every single night because sometimes girls

end up kissing it.

And at the end of the night, I kiss a girl.

That's right.

I've kissed over a hundred girls.

- By the time Katy was 11, the Hudson family had settled

in Santa Barbara, California,

where she spent her teenage years.

Despite Katy's strict upbringing,

or perhaps because of it, her quirky style began

to shine through before she reached her teens.

- I remember when I was in sixth grade.

I've always been obsessed with clothes,

and as a little girl till now,

the obsession has gotten a lot worse.

But I remember seeing a fake vintage leopard coat

in an antique store.

I really wanted it, and I think it was, like, $60,

which was a lot of money and, you know,

I don't come from anything, and that was a big present.

But I remember I opened it up on Christmas day

and I got it and I wore it in California,

which is not winter weather, you know,

and it's this heavy, like, leopard jacket.

And I remember after that break of Christmas break

and then going back to school, everybody wears

their new outfits and they're so excited.

Everything is, like, squeaky and glossy,

and everybody looks like a walking model, you know,

and I wore my leopard coat, and I got so made fun of.

All the kids hated it, but I knew I was doing something

really good because all the moms that were picking up

the kids were, like, sweetheart, where did you happen to get that coat?

It's fabulous.

And it was like, you just wait and see.

You may only be 12, but your 30-year old mom

loves it, and she might know something.

She reads Vogue, you read Teen People.

- Katy actually confessed to Cosmo about how she wasn't

actually even allowed to read Cosmo when she was

a teenage girl because it had too much sex in there,

which is quite funny now

because she's been on the cover so many times

She told us it was because her parents didn't approve

of the sex content and didn't like the fact

that there was a girl on the front cover

with a bit of cleavage showing.

And now she is indeed one of those girls with her cleavage

out on Cosmo and she loves it.

She feels empowered by it.

When I think about who I want to go on the cover,

I always think about Katy, and it's crazy

that as a teenager she wasn't allowed to read it.

But it's come full circle now

and she's very pleased with that transformation.

- Have you ever kissed a girl?

- I haven't. I'm saving myself for Miley Cyrus.

- She's a wonderful role model. She gets out there.

She does her own thing.

She actually made people feel fine with her saying

that as a preacher's daughter you've been saying that,

you know, I kissed a girl and I liked it.

- It seems as though that was an attention-grabbing thing

to talk about, sort of very provocative,

but absolutely not when you meet her and you can see

that this is absolutely her.

She's quirky.

- Actually, it's kind of one of those things where, like,

you open up a magazine

and you look to your significant other

and you're like, I'm not gonna lie, if Scarlett Johansson

walked into the room and she wanted to kiss me,

might let her. I hope you're okay with that.

It's one of those, like, that's my one.

And it talks about, like, just like the magical beauty

of a woman and how, like, special that is,

and how we can pretty much do anything.

We are the dominant species.

- Katy's parents weren't accepting,

especially after she came out with songs like,

"I Kissed a Girl," which the Hudsons actually publicly

decried as shameful and disgusting.

- It was so daring for her to do that and to make

other people feel good about experimenting,

and I think that's a very healthy role model to have.

- At the time, it was really unheard of, you know,

this really sexy girl singing about kissing girls.

And I thought, oh, my God, that's so cool

- You think that maybe the relationship between

Katy and her parents now would be a little strained,

but they actually all get on very well,

and her parents support her in what she does.

- I think the "I Kissed a Girl"s were never like,

ooh, let's see how I can stir up the pot of scandalous, you know?

It was actually just me telling my story

and that is how I see the world, you know?

And that's kind of like the funny, messed up way

I live my life, I guess, with a dark kind of undertone--

sarcastic, dark undertone.

Humor is so important in my life.

Laughing is just, like, it feels so good,

and it's a main ingredient for, you know,

everything I do because it can be really stressful,

and there can be a lot of responsibilities.

And sometimes you just gotta let it roll off your back

and have a laugh about it, or turn it into

that kind of thing, like, oh, what can you do, you know?

If I start to edit myself and the things I'm saying,

then I don't think the people that first

bought my record will really know that

it's coming from an honest place, you know?

I'm not trying to edit myself for other people

and write a record that other people want.

I'm writing a record that I want.

- Katy Perry may have rebelled against a Christian past,

but her upbringing is undoubtedly responsible

in some part for her overwhelming appeal.

Gospel music propelled Katy into the music world,

and still remains at her core.

- Katy is still religious to this day.

She has publicly said that she believes in God.

- She has a tattoo that says Jesus on one wrist.

- She got the tattoo at the age of 18

to remind her where she comes from.

- She hasn't had it removed, so you have to assume

that there is a level of faith there.

- She does have these real traditional values,

but her career has been anything but traditional, you know?

She's been quite outlandish.

- Although the Pentecostal religion

would have been imprinted on her, sort of whole psyche,

she's found her own way to go through life,

and she seems to straddle both her religious background

and being in the pop world, which,

let's face it, the music industry

can be quite a dirty world.

- She's been quite provocative and sexy at times,

and that's what we love about her.

- She's just so real, and she's just--

she's just like this normal girl that's happened

to follow her passion, never give up.

You can really, really see that in her career path.

- In one sense her religious upbringing would have given her

a kind of inner strength, but in another sense,

she would have also felt quite naturally, well,

I'm going to follow my own path,

because she's a very strong personality.

- When you do end up in the spotlight,

there's still all those things going on in relationships,

in friendships, in your family, and you definitely

don't air them out as much, or I never really did

in the first place much.

But that's where kind of like my songwriting comes from,

is my own therapeutic moments I need to have with myself

to get over a situation, or get over a problem I'm having,

or deal with something I'm going through.

I usually write a song about it.

And I've been through a lot.

- The natural music ability which would make Katy a star

was apparent by the age of 13 when she began

to play the guitar and write her own songs.

- The first times I started singing was in church.

But then when I started playing guitar,

I would go into the newspaper and I would find, you know,

karaoke-- not karaoke, open mic sessions

and coffee shops that would let anybody sign up to play,

although I was pretty good at karaoke.

And I would go there and I would just pull out my guitar

and play these little rough drafts of songs

and get people's feedback and really see if it was connecting,

if people really related to it,

or if they would even listen, you know?

- Katy Hudson, as she was known then,

has always been very, very interested in music.

Her family called her Katybird or the songbird

because she was just always warbling away.

And it was about at the age of nine that her mother

suggested she start to get singing lessons,

and they quickly noticed her talent.

- She was in a gospel choir,

and she is an accomplished guitarist.

- Katy asked for her first guitar at age 13,

which she received for her birthday,

and she started writing songs pretty much straightaway.

A lot of them were about God and gospel songs,

but she did privately, behind her parents' back,

also start writing little tunes about boys

and normal teenage stuff.

- It would be a sad day for me if I sang songs that I felt like

any other pop artist could just put their vocals on or sing.

I'm happy to be pop.

I'm happy that the music is very mainstream,

but I also need it to be storytelling.

- With a talent for translating personal pain

into professional triumph, Katy unifies her audience who

relate to her autobiographical lyrics on a personal level.

- She's very, very good on stage.

She's worth seeing because, like, it's-- like, I don't like

when you go see a show and,

like, the artist doesn't really connect with the crowd.

But she's always got a story to tell,

and she's always quite funny even though at every show

she says she's not a very good public speaker,

it doesn't stop her.

- Lyrics are so important to me.

I mean, how many times do you turn on the radio

and hear and song and you're like, what in the--

what are they saying?

What-- what is it that they're saying?

I know they're talking about the club and the beat

and the DJ and the dance,

but does it mean anything at the end of the day, so--

- Katy Perry is not your average manufactured act.

A lot of people think she has nothing to do

with her own songwriting,

but actually in fact she is very involved.

She does work with other producers, of course,

however, all her lyrics come from, you know,

real life experiences and are very personal to her.

- Max Martin is a very big songwriter from Sweden.

He helps me with melodies and then I-- and then I'll slap

all of my lyrics on top of it, and for some reason,

a kid that's four years old can sing it to a person

that's 85, my grandmother even.

- The queen of modern pop is no stranger

to a suggestive song lyric, but raw emotions are

the driving force behind the Perry phenomenon.

- To my personal life and in interviews and

when I sit down to talk about things,

sometimes I don't give as much detail as I used to,

but I think I am saving it for the songs,

and the songs I'm just gushing, you know?

- Katy won't always talk about her personal experiences

in interviews, but she will talk about it through her music.

- She tell a story through her songs.

It's not just a song for a song's sake.

You listen to her album and you feel

like you've gone through it all with her.

- At heart she's a naturally creative person

as a singer songwriter, and we know in art therapy

and music therapy, how powerful they are

as tools at a therapeutic level.

- She seems to really relate to people with her lyrics.

- She writes it herself and then the lyrics are written

from personal experience.

You can totally imagine it's about that breakup

and what she'd been through,

and that's why I love her music so much.

Lyrics we all could cry to sometimes

because we think about a boy or a breakup

and we can put ourselves completely in her shoes.

- She was kind of doing her own therapy

by being creative, pouring her heart into her lyrics.

That is a powerful way of sort of moving yourself forward.

- During Katy's childhood,

the Hudson family lived a sheltered life.

She and her two siblings were not permitted

to watch cable channels like MTV,

and pop music was banned in the household.

- I didn't really have a whole lot of MTV in my life

growing up, but I know that when I did see

the bits and pieces I saw, they were really, like,

powerful and it really affected me,

and I kind of grew up always, you know, having that

in the back of my mind saying,

oh, I want to be a part of something like that.

- Katy was exposed to gospel music only through her family.

She was actually banned from watching TV,

she told us it was because her parents didn't approve.

- She wasn't allowed to watch any TV,

but obviously they couldn't block everything out,

and so, you know as she became a young teenager

and she went to friends' places, she'd watch MTV.

- When I was a kid, I remember getting a hold

of that "Jagged Little Pill" record by Alanis Morissette.

I felt like I was the only person going through whatever

I was going through and then she sang songs

and wrote songs about it, and I was like,

"okay, I'm not alone, great."

- Katy seems to have a lot of different influences.

- She loved Alanis Morissette which is quite at odds

with her where she's playing the guitar

and she's singing Christian songs.

She's a real country girl.

- Early style icons were Gwen Stefani

and Shirley Manson in Garbage.

- Other influences included Madonna, Joni Mitchell,

and Gwen Stefani in particular.

- She liked these sort of rock star women.

That's why her career took a while to progress.

It was about finding herself and finding her sound.

- She's obviously this pop phenomenon now.

She tried to go down that slightly more

underground route first.

- It took her a while to do that because she did

have to rebel against her background and her upbringing.

So it probably took quite a lot of strength for her to do

it and that's what we really admire about her.

- I would have to add to that Madonna

has been a real inspiration for her.

Certainly you can see the kind of 80s,

"Desperately Seeking Susan" in Katy quite a lot of the time.

- I want to be that what is she doing next artist.

I really do because all the people that I am inspired

by are those types of artists, so--

like Freddy Mercury, Madonna.

Everybody's always like, what are they gonna do next,

or what did he do next, or-- you know what I'm saying?

So I definitely want to push the envelope

and just play music, good music.

I'm a female pop, you know, person.

I feel like sometimes you're missing those females

in the pop music industry that actually bring it.

- The first time she heard Freddy Mercury's voice,

it was just like time stood still for her.

- You wouldn't imagine her liking somebody

as rock as Queen, but she really did.

- I had that moment when I was 15, and I had come

from this sheltered upbringing

and didn't know really the name of a Madonna song, you know?

I didn't know really any of that type of stuff

that everybody was just like, duh, to.

And my best friend put on a soundtrack to our day

as we were, you know, raiding her closet,

and I remember "Killer Queen" came on.

And it was like I heard the song and we were, you know,

trying on these dresses on top of her bed

in this full length mirror, and this song came on,

and I just, like, had to sit down on the edge of the bed

and listen to these lyrics, and I was just like,

oh, my gosh, I never thought that anybody

could write lyrics like these, especially a guy.

Brian May from the band Queen is here,

gonna watch the show tonight,

so I'm a little nervous actually.

- We're gonna invite him-- - No, you're not.

- Yes. He was talking to me about playing.

- No, you're not. I'll throw up.

I'll -- I won't be able to perform.

( wretches )

- All right. Pink flamingos.

- I saw that movie.

- Pink flamingos. Everybody say John Waters on three.

- One, two, three... John Waters!

- Go, stretch, go!

( cheering )

- One, two, three.

( cheering )

- Brian May came to a show in London.

I had actually been stalking him and, you know,

having some of the people that I worked with

send emails saying, oh, by the way, we're in town again.

f you ever have a night off,

we'd love for you to come out and see the show.

I was really nervous when he actually decided

he was going to show up, but he was lovely

and supportive and cool and hung out with my bandmates,

you know, when he probably has a million other things to do.

- By the time she was 15, Katy Hudson's passion

for music had grown.

Chaperoned by her parents, she began taking trips

to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a career in

the Christian music industry.

- Katy left school at age 15 when she went off

to Nashville to make her first album.

- She was taking trips to Nashville and exploring

the music scene when she was 15 years old.

She went back and forth.

- She did end up finishing her high school diploma later on.

- She got signed by a label,

then she released a Christian album.

- Katy's first album, Katy Hudson,

was released in 2001. It was gospel music only.

- It wasn't successful.

- A Christian gospel album, and sold, like, 200 copies.

- Unfortunately, the label went bust.

- It was just a case of finding herself, and I think that's

why it was great that she didn't make it

in those early years with those country albums,

because that wasn't her, and this is her now

and it's really empowering that she can be that.

- Hi everyone.

( cheering )

- This is kind of awesome.

( cheering )

- Can you hear me all the way back there?

( cheering )

- Listen, so this is the thing that's gonna happen.

I have to act like a professional on

this pink carpet for a second, and after I'm done acting

like a professional, I'm gonna come out

and get wild with you, okay?

( cheering )

- Disappointed but undaunted by the failure

of her first album,

Katy Hudson adopted a new surname,

abandoned the gospel genre, and age just 17,

headed to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of

stardom on the pop circuit.

- I started out playing in this place

in Los Angeles called Hotel Café.

A lot of musicians come through there,

a lot of singer songwriters.

But you never know who's going to show up.

You can go into, like, a bar and play a song

and not have anybody listen and you really kind of made it.

- After her first album's non-event, she wasn't deterred.

She decided to go to California

and to pursue a career in pop music.

- She'd actually been working really hard

behind the scenes for many years and trying to make it.

- Katy changed her last name from Hudson to Perry,

which is her mother's maiden name,

because she was worried that she would get associated

with the Hollywood actress Kate Hudson,

because she was convinced that she would become famous.

- After her arrival in L.A., Katy was introduced to one

of America's foremost producers, Glen Ballard,

who was responsible for Alanis Morissette's

chart-topping hit, "Jagged Little Pill."

- Katy met with Glen and he was straightaway

convinced that she would be a star.

Things started going really well at first.

She was writing heaps and heaps of songs,

and it looked like she would get an album out.

However, things stalled quite quickly, and the next

few years would be incredibly frustrating for Katy.

- Unable to secure a record deal though Island Def Jam,

Katy subsequently signed with Columbia records,

but they too let her go.

- Originally her managers wanted her to front a band

in a Joan Jett style, like a rock and roll band,

and that didn't work out, and they tried

different incarnations.

- She was trying lots of different tacks

to get her music out there.

- Given that her management company also managed the B-52s,

it's not that much of a leap to think that that's

probably originally how they'd envisioned her

as something more underground.

- They kept saying you could be the next Avril Lavigne

or Kelly Clarkson, and she didn't want to be.

She just wanted to be the first Katy.

- By 2006, having been dropped by three record labels,

Katy was broke and on the edge.

- The guys that really didn't understand

my artistic vision were like, no, we--

we're not gonna put her record out.

And I played my songs, I kept playing my songs,

and what was responding were the people.

They were there for me.

And people were supporting these songs

and they were telling me this--

that this was the right thing to do.

- She had a period in 2006 where she was quite down

and she was struggling to get her first album out.

She admits she went out drinking

quite a bit at that stage.

- She's not had an easy journey.

She's worked hard for her success.

- There's that definite sense of incredible determination.

- Katy is a billion trillion percent dedicated to her craft.

- If you want to succeed in anything,

you've got to just absolutely dedicate

your life to it, and she has.

- Katy's undeniable talent and willful determination

to succeed paid off in 2007

when she was signed by the Capitol Music Group.

By November that year, a digital release

of "You're So Gay" was unleashed.

- It's important for me to come out and support

Katy Perry because I've been a big fan of hers

for a long time, before Madonna.

In case you don't know, Madonna gave her a shout out

a few times saying that one her songs, "You're So Gay,"

was her favorite song of the moment.

But I wrote about Katy first,

and I think I introduced her to Madonna.

- For Madonna to know somebody's first and last name, what?

Madonna. What are you thinking?

I reached out for my inhaler most definitely.

When I heard that I was like, ooh, I can't breathe,

I can't breathe, I can't breathe.

So most definitely amazing.

- She did "You're So Gay," free released in 2007.

- "You're So Gay" was a free download on her MySpace page.

It was received pretty well by her followers at the time.

- The debut single, "You're So Gay"

generated some media attention, but failed to chart.

- In 2008, Katy teamed up with power pop writing

duo Max Martin and Dr. Luke, the collaborators

behind the hits of Britney Spears,

Pink, and Taylor Swift.

- The label suggested that Katy get in the studio

with a couple of really happening producers,

Dr. Luke and Max Martin.

- She walked into a rehearsal studio and said,

you know, that's it, I'm going to be part of the problem.

And they said, what do you mean, and she said,

I just want to make sure that this happens,

so I'm going to be a pop star.

And that was, like, the moment she decided

to become Katy Perry almost.

- They had quickly come up with about

three different songs, one of which was "I Kissed a Girl."

- The California dreamer had achieved her goal.

In true fairy tale fashion, she rebranded herself

and exploded onto the mainstream

with the 2008 release of the infectious single,

"I Kissed a Girl."

- I would like to thank Dr. Luke for ordering lunch

for us and for setting up the hookah,

and for calling the tech

when the computer crashes,

and for making me rich!

I love you! You're a pain in the ass!

- The single provide to be one of the most infectious

power-pop anthems of the decade, and established

Katy's metamorphosis into America's pop sweetheart,

and the world's best-selling star.

- It was, you know, something that I didn't think

ever could really happen because, I mean,

my record only came out, like, five months ago.

I should still be at home eating mac and cheese

watching the VMAs, but I hosted it.

It was larger than life.

- It was only when she did something as controversial

as singing about kissing a girl, that she made it.

- It's got that sort of salacious vibe to it,

but as her career has progressed,

that song has made a lot more sense.

- It's a massive, massive commercial success.

- Quite often I will hear of musicians and singers many,

many years before they make it big,

and they'll be a bit of a buzz, but I literally didn't hear

of her until that summer, and it was just Katy's summer.

- "I Kissed a Girl" was instantly a worldwide hit.

- It went to number one, and we heard it everywhere.

- It was like, bang, overnight success.

- I'm gonna call my friends and say,

please don't order without me, I'm starving.

And by the way, I got nominated.

Booyah.

- Katy's first mainstream album, "One of the Boys,"

shot into the top ten in America,

and produced a string of hits, including "Hot and Cold,"

and "Waking Up in Vegas."

Katy's stardom has been soaring ever since.

- When I wrote "Waking Up in Vegas,"

it was just basically about getting into trouble.

I don't know if you know anything about Vegas,

but it's a place where you get into trouble.

You probably don't write home about it necessarily.

And usually you take your best friend or your boyfriend

or, you know, that person you can have trouble with,

and you really can't apologize afterwards,

even if you look like crap the next day or you ended up

having to bail yourself out of some kind of situation.

It's a fun kind of party anthemic song

just about having a great time, you know?

- By the end of 2008, "One of the Boys"

had reached platinum success, and Katy's professional career

continued to progress full steam ahead.

- Are you confident this evening,

are you confident about your chances?

- No. Not at all.

It's very competitive in my-- in my category.

- Are you a fan of the Brits,

is it something you've watched before?

- I haven't watched it because I live in the States,

but I know-- I know it's important.

I know it's, you know, as important as the Grammys,

and to be a foreigner on, you know, be a foreigner

here and to be nominated is a big deal, so thanks.

- Six MTV Music Awards and two Grammy Award nominations

later, the multifaceted artist began writing tracks

for her career-defining "Teenage Dream" album.

- I don't feel completely different than when I started.

I feel like I have a lot to prove still,

and I still have that ambition and that drive that I had,

you know, when I didn't have anybody

or when I didn't know what was going to happen

in the future, if I was going to make it or anything.

I still kind of fell that way of, like, oh, this is great,

I had a great hit record and I know that I'm good at this,

and this is my gift, but I know I have to work at it

and continue to kind of keep shaping it and not just,

like, let it sit out and, you know, oh, now,

I'm famous and I have 12 people doing it all for me, you know?

No. I can't do that type of stuff, or it won't work.

Like, you know, all that stuff I've been going through

and perspective I see life now and the relationships

I have with people, you know, all that's kind of bubbling

to the top, and it's going to spill over

and it's definitely going to seep into all of my songs.

I guess, you know, I'm over my period.

I'm-- I know how to handle boys now.

Actually, I don't even mess with boys anymore.

I mess with men, you know?

- Katy's highly publicized romances with celebrity bad boys

have always ensured she dominates the headlines.

- I'm doing a ton of festivals, and usually will actually have

a couple of my girlfriends out because I told them come out.

I'm gonna go and do a couple festivals,

and I'll be backstage, and there's lot of

hot, hot band boys hanging out.

You should come and you can creep on them.

And we get into trouble, yeah.

We definitely do.

- Katy first met British actor and controversial comedian

Russell Brand in 2009 during filming for

a cameo appearance for the movie "Get Him to the Greek."

- Distinction and difference from each other,

I think is really, really important,

and genuine affection, I think.

Genuine affection but difference, I think,

creates good chemistry.

- Katy first encountered Russell Brand in the movie

"Get Him to the Greek."

She was filmed in a cameo role where she actually had

to kiss Russell, but it got cut,

so it never appeared in the final movie.

- I nearly choked on my coffee when I first heard

that she was going out with Russell Brand.

- It was weird when they got together actually,

because knowing them separately, you would never,

ever, ever put them together.

- They looked like such incredibly different characters.

You know, he always has the dark and kind of seedy side to him

and she was this kind of fresh, you know, vibrant,

energetic pop princess who really knows her own mind,

but she still had that kind of very fresh

and innocent look about her.

- He looked like this kind of challenge and this guy

that she could help, and we know she's

so positive and amazing.

- So in one sense it was kind of like,

whoa, they're going to make it work.

- She took quite a fancy to him,

but, you know, he was trying to,

like, get her to go out with him that night, and she said,

no, you're going to have to wine and dine me,

and it sort of developed from there.

- Russell Brand achieved notoriety in Britain

as a television host and stand-up comedian.

- Who is using this as an opportunity shoplift?

Yeah.

I definitely would because a lot of the security

is distracted at a time like this, so yeah, feel free.

- Russell was really fun

and I thought he was quite charming to begin with.

- Working in London since I was 18, I've known Russell

on the scene before he moved to L.A.

To say that he was a lothario is an understatement, you know.

He would leave venues and clubs with like,

four or five girls.

- He has a really short attention span

and gets bored easily, and just go, go, go.

- Katy's kissing scene was cut from "Get Him to the Greek,"

but in September 2009, the on screen passion

bubbled over into real life when the couple's paths

crossed again at the MTV Video Music Awards.

- I don't think she realized the impact that

that would have on me, like-- because it was sort of,

like, you know, there's not a person in my life

that I haven't at some point sulked about

and not spoken to for at least a few days.

But it was like reaching back into your childhood,

taking the injured nincompoop of the boy I was

and sort of putting a laurel upon his brow.

It was, like, marvelous, and plus she looked amazing.

- They met at the MTV Awards and they had a play fight and,

you know, I bet he would have been very funny and fun

and that would have been really nice and refreshing for her.

Because I suppose that most guys that she meets

are kind of, like, a bit intimidated by her.

- She is a feisty woman.

She's not going to choose a doormat.

She would be utterly bored with a man

who followed her around like a puppy.

She's a challenge herself, so of course she's going

to choose challenging men.

- He prefers to sort of date a string of women.

He has had problems with sex and passion addiction.

- Now, another aspect, of course, to that kind

of womanizing is the sense of the thrill that they get.

Russell has spoken about that very honestly.

Like a love pirate, he kind of made his way

through all these sort of women,

and at some level, women are attracted to that.

- They both seemed to fall in love with each other

very quickly, very deeply, madly.

- Katy wouldn't talk about it as such, but she couldn't

resist kind of talking about it a little bit

because she was so happy and she was planning their wedding.

- The couple became engaged on New Year's Eve 2009

while on holiday in Rajasthan, India.

- We're getting married.

It's going to be somewhere fabulous, but I can't say.

It's definitely not in India because we

already went there, I was already engaged,

I was there for two weeks. Over it.

Japan!

- British comedian Russell Brand

and American pop star Katy Perry have tied the knot.

The couple has issued a statement confirming

they were married Saturday in a private

and spiritual ceremony in northern India.

A Christian minister and long-time friend

of Perry's family helped the couple exchange vows.

The wedding was reportedly held at a luxury resort

in a tiger reserve attended by family members

and close friends.

Security was tight at the hotel with private guards

stationed there, and at other nearby hotels.

The couple and their guests started arriving

in Jaipur for the six-day celebration on Wednesday.

Brand proposed to Perry in the historic Indian city

back in January.

Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

- The real Russell Brand, wherever the hell he is

has been tamed. - He has.

- With dog sweets.

- I was just happy for them both.

- I was, like, Russell and Katy,

okay, getting married, that's cool.

- They seemed really cute and really loved up,

so of course you would like to see someone that you know

happy, if it's not with you, with somebody else.

- Anything that flagged up to me that they were not

going to work out was the fact that they had

that huge over-the-top wedding which,

when people put everything into show, often underneath

it it's because there's nothing really there to support it,

and they feel they overcompensate

at a psychological level by showing to the world how

big their love is when actually it's quite fragile.

- They hadn't known each other that long,

but she was just feeling this romance,

and she fell totally in love with him, and him her,

and they went for it.

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- Sorry. Sorry.

- Every day is a laugh with this crazy ass one.

Let's go eat.

- Bye-bye.

- In 2010, Katy returned with yet another hit machine.

The album "Teenage Dream" took her career

to record-breaking heights when she became

the first female artist in history to produce

five number one hits from a single album.

- I am on the battlefield myself,

but I'm just singing pop songs.

But yeah, I'm away from my hubby every once in a while

and we use Skype and iChat and, you know, that really helps.

And so I just hope that everybody can find,

you know, a great Christmas and, you know, be blessed.

- In 2010, "Teenage Dream" was released,

and that basically eclipsed everything

that had come before it

as far as Katy's recording career was concerned.

- Her second album, that was phenomenally successful

in a record-breaking way.

She is the only female artist who have got

five number one singles from an album ever.

That was just an amazing accomplishment for Katy,

especially at such a young age.

The only other person to do that was Michael Jackson.

So it was crazy successful and she's still flying.

- Previously in the past years I've had a nomination

for best female pop performance, and I was nominated

for that award this year, third time, plus three more.

So I feel a lot of love coming my way.

I feel like I made the right decisions

with the record and, you know, once again, like,

my gut feeling, my instincts have paid off for me, so--

- Riding high on the phenomenal success of "Teenage Dream,"

in February 2011, Katy launched a second extravagant

world tour, "California Dreams."

- I think that's what I'm all about is having fun

and making people realize that music can still be

very fun and entertaining.

And I do like to, you know, be-- have my serious points,

but generally, life is really serious and it's nice to kind

of take a breather from that for an hour and a half

when you come to the show.

- In 2011 Katy embarked on her second major tour.

This one was called California Dreams.

It was 123 dates across three continents.

- It was absolutely huge in terms of the size

of the arenas, which ranged from about 6,000 to 12,000.

The scope of it was mind-blowing, really.

- It was just incredible. It took her a year to do.

- You've never seen anything like it.

She had eight juggernauts with the stage in them,

and then she had about ten tour buses.

She had 80 crew which were her riggers, sparks,

she had a boatload of dancers, choreographers.

She had about four costumiers, a masseuse, a personal trainer.

She had her two managers with her, her sister,

her P.A. and a full catering.

- When I tour I take a few people with me.

My band and all the productions and things like that.

A lot of times I usually ask for baby wipes backstage

because they're great for makeup,

they're great for when you don't have a shower,

and they're good for other things.

And I love having a humidifier in my room at all times.

- I was hired at Katy's dancer.

I stood next to her because we're very

similar height, so as we enter the stage,

she was right next to me, and she was shaking.

I grabbed her hand, and I looked at her

and I was like, you gonna be all right?

And she, like, in this, like, cute little

American accent, she's like, yeah, I know, I know.

And she just, like, that steely focus,

and she smashed it.

- And she has this persona of being a semi-50s pinup,

but there's a lot of double entendre

and innuendo in her performances.

- She had a huge prop, she came out with

this massive lipstick, like riding up with,

like, a big helmet on.

So she was on this Chapstick that looked a male sexual organ.

So I'm remember on rehearsals, like, she came riding

and she's, you know, like, oh, yeah, oh, my God,

it's so good, it's so hot.

So, you know, we all thought it was brilliant.

- Katy had fireworks in the background,

so the pyrotechnic that we had to use on stage,

we had these backpacks that looked like Ninja Turtle backpacks,

these circular things, and they have fireworks

that spin around and create a giant Catherine wheel behind you.

If it goes wrong, it could be dangerous.

They were quite scary.

They made me nervous just before the show,

but as soon as we got out there, she lit up the whole crowd.

The moment she went out there, thousands of people

in that audience, they were going crazy.

- There is nothing like the sound of 12,000 people

all singing at the top of their lungs.

That is, like, so stupendous

it's impossible to kind of articulate.

- My aim is just to have a fun time and make sure that,

you know, these kids go away having a good time,

feeling good inside, feeling like they were entertained.

Maybe they learned something about who I am and

my music, or they were inspired in a creative way.

- When it comes to rocking fashion,

Katy's inimitable style is celebrated almost

as much as the music itself.

- Katy is definitely not a slave to fashion.

She completely creates her own look.

In fact, I say she's a kind of zeitgeist of fashion.

- Not many women could get away with what she wears.

- She is like a kind of kaleidoscope explosion

of color and popular culture.

- She is completely that showgirl with whipped cream

shooting out of her bosoms, you know

That is Katy.

- Katy is often seen on the front row of shows.

She has a huge relationship with Chanel.

She is especially close to Karl Lagerfeld

and always on his front row.

- I have been researching a lot of the vintage Chanel.

Everywhere I go, I was just in Berlin, I was just in London,

I always go to the vintage stores

and ask for all, like, the 1990s vintage Chanel

if you have it.

So I think that the pieces that you buy

from Chanel only appreciate in value.

It's kind of like a man's watch.

- Her style is kind of confusing and chaotic,

and it changes all the time.

- She uses style to express herself,

and she uses it to cheer herself up as well, you know.

When you're feeling down, if you put on a crazy frock

that's got strawberries all over it,

it's gonna make you feel better.

- You know, when a girl gets a new outfit,

it gives her this extra oomph.

And when I get a new outfit, I usually wear it the same day

and I don't know what it is.

It's just like that new dress makes you feel

fun and alive and vibrant.

Katy looks like a Hollywood starlet

from the 1940s and she dresses her curves in that way.

But also she's very reminiscent to me

of Vivian Leigh and Greta Garbo.

She says that the 1940s is the best style of clothes on her

- She does the done up look so well, and she kind of

has this bit of an old school feel about her.

- It's a bit like a Dita Von Teese look.

- She really bring that 50s look, the Dita Von Teese,

the pale skin and the flicky eyelashes, you know.

A lot of girls are caught up in the fake tan

and the very fake look, whereas Katy, you know,

she's more natural and she's got the pale skin.

She's more of like-- she's almost like an English rose,

but she does like the really precise makeup

and the 50s look.

- Her makeup is pretty heavy.

She hates to go bare faced.

- Her stage makeup takes at least two hours to apply.

- It would take her roughly about two hours to get ready,

but she'd get ready for different things.

- Like she would normally arrive to the venue

at about 4:00, and then she'd sort of semi get ready,

like, sort of Katy Perry light,

and wear a little body con outfit.

And then she'd go and meet a load of fans

and do a meet and greet with them,

and then she'd go back into her dressing room

and do the full-on Katy Perry thing

and come out at about 7:00, Perry'd up.

- She does the brightly colored costumes

and hair and she's really pared that back,

and she's really calmed it down.

I like now that she's changed her look

a little bit to become a bit more sophisticated.

- She has definitely grown up,

and her style evolution shows that as well.

She's a serious artist. She's got nothing to prove.

She's successful and she looks great.

- In December 2011, a mere 14 months

after exchanging vows in India,

Russell Brand filed for divorce

citing irreconcilable differences.

- The news broke on New Year's Day,

and you really felt for her because you could tell

she was totally in love with him and wanted to make it work.

- It all fell apart because they just simply

came from such very different worlds.

And then to add insult to injury,

everyone discovered that she was dumped by text.

- I was shocked, but he can be quite a nasty person.

- That's not really a manly thing to do though, is it?

- She found herself lying on the bathroom floor

considering whether to end it all.

Very callous and just awful. Poor Katy.

- What that tells you at a psychological level

is you think I was only worth a text,

and that is incredibly devastating.

So it's no surprise that that breakup was so painful

for Katy in particular.

- I needed to do a lot of self-reflection

because I went through a difficult time in my life,

and so I needed to go inside and do a lot of work

and therapy and mending.

I went through the transition, and I did a cleanse for,

like, three months, a mind and body and soul type of cleanse.

And it made my life so much better

and gave me more perspective and helped me live very consciously.

- In July 2012, Katy made the leap to the big screen

when her biopic movie "Part of Me" was released.

- I think it was important for me to leave some of

the more difficult things in the film so that

it wasn't just a narcissistic fanfare film about how great I am.

I think it was important to show that there are

obstacles and problems in people's lives,

and it's okay if you have them, you just have to overcome them.

- Following the collapse of her marriage,

Katy was ready to start a new chapter.

In October 2012, she found time to support

Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

The following month, Billboard announced

that she would take home the Woman of the Year award.

The star also sat the rumor mills buzzing

when she began dating fellow musician, John Mayer.

- Your no one until some lets you down.

We live in this time right now where

everybody' expectations are so astronomically high,

that everybody is settling, quote unquote.

To be with anybody is to settle,

because it really means settling for not being by yourself.

- When I first heard that Katy was dating John Mayer,

I just thought, oh, no, not another one.

- He's got a bad reputation for being a naughty boy.

- When you look at the psychology of relationships,

the relationship post-divorce is most likely to fail,

and that's because people are obviously harboring

a lot of emotional baggage

and they haven't quite dealt with it.

- So it's no surprise that with Katy and John

you've got that sort of start then stop then

start again relationship.

- I'm very monogamous, and so once I decide

I'm going to like someone, I like them for a long time.

And usually I don't do-- I don't--

usually I have not done dates.

I do a lot of, like, communication,

talking, phone or email.

- 2013 brought a new chapter of optimism to Katy's life.

Adding a further title to her list of achievements,

the singer/songwriter was appointed

as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador.

- I'm very excited to take on this responsibility

and this role to be able to take all the attention

that I have and all the spotlight and shine it on

the children that need to be illuminated

and highlighted and saved and helped.

UNICEF in particular was special to me

because I took a trip with them.

Whatever I decide to do whether it's be a part

an organization or a brand or anything I do,

it's because I've had an experience with them.

I saw all these children interacting with each other.

There is so much love between them.

There is so much compassion, and they don't have anything.

They don't have any material possessions.

They don't have any social status.

It's an unconditional love.

I want to wash my hands too.

I was really inspired to write the song "Unconditionally,"

seeing these children

just have the currency of love between them.

- After record-setting success and personal loss,

in October 2013, the multi-faceted star

struck back with the release of her fourth album, "Prism."

- Well, the new record is a very self-reflective record.

It's a record that was influenced by me letting

a lot of positivity into my life,

a lot of light into my life,

especially after coming through

a dark period and a dark time.

And so, you know, I think the record covers

a lot of hope and a lot of joy, a lot of strength.

Basically I called it "Prism" because I let a lot

of light into my life.

It influenced all the songs

and now I get to beam it back out into the listener.

So I feel very prismatic and full of these

wonderful colors, and I just kind of like to be a light.

- Katy Perry's rise to the top is a true story of inspiration.

Whether touring the globe, or launching

an out-of-this-world fragrance,

the reigning queen of pop continues to conquer.

- I'm going to be a crazy fruit cat lady when I get older.

No husband, just 20 cats, in my muumuu

that's brightly covered in fruit.

- Katy Perry is one of the greatest female artists of

the 21st century, and ten years from now

her music will definitely be around.

- Katy will be around as long as she wants to be around,

but whether she wants to or not, I'm not sure.

I think she really would like the traditional

marriage and kids at some point as well.

- She's forming a brand, so we're just gonna see

a new kind of horizon of Katy Perry.

Gone will be the kind of dressing up as a snowman

on stage or having flashing lights on a swimming costume.

It will be much more about a screen goddess and a siren.

I think she will take herself into that phase.

- I'd like to start a small fashion line,

but very small, I think, for now.

And I would like to be a mom one day.

That's a challenge, I'm sure.

And I'd like to make an acoustic record.

That would be a challenge.

- Katy's legacy will be the bubblegum pop star

with a real heart.

- Her music will be her legacy for years to come.

- How you doing, Times Square?

I'm not all great.

There might be moments of greatness,

but they are very hard worked.

Thank you so much for believing in my weirdness.

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