Katy Perry calls out National Enquirer

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Katy Perry calls out National Enquirer after she was warned of an upcoming article on her mental health journey with the Hoffman Institute.

The email alerts Perry that the article will describe the institute as “cult-y” despite her well-documented positive experience.



Katy shared her experience of the Hoffman Process in Vogue Australia 2 years ago :

Last January, she attended a week-long program at the Hoffman Institute, a California-based personal growth retreat that, according to its website, “helps participants identify negative behaviours, moods and ways of thinking that developed unconsciously and were conditioned in childhood”.

Katy explains: “For years, my friends would go and come back completely rejuvenated, and I wanted to go, too. I was ready to let go of anything that was holding me back from being my ultimate self. I have had bouts of situational depression and my heart was broken last year because, unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the public didn’t react in the way I had expected to … which broke my heart.” After a decade of back-to-back hit albums and record-breaking successes (she tied Michael Jackson for most number-one hits off a single record in 2011), her career hit a plateau with 2017’s Witness album. “Music is my first love and I think it was the universe saying: ‘Okay, you speak all of this language about self-love and authenticity, but we are going to put you through another test and take away any kind of validating “blankie”. Then we’ll see how much you do truly love yourself.’ That brokenness, plus me opening up to a greater, higher power and reconnecting with divinity, gave me a wholeness I never had. It gave me a new foundation. It’s not just a material foundation: it’s a soul foundation.”

Like the remedy for an iPhone that keeps freezing, her week in the Hoffman program was a system reboot. “I believe that, essentially and metaphorically, we are all computers, and sometimes we adopt these viruses via our parents or via the nurture that we are given or not given growing up. They start to play out in our behaviour, in our adult patterns, in our relationships.” Her time at Hoffman comes up often in conversation and she never shies away from the discussion of mental health. In fact, she’s given Hoffman gift certificates to friends when she sees them struggling. “I recommend it to everyone, my good friends and other artists who are looking for a breakthrough. There are a lot of people who are self-medicating through validation in audiences, through substances, through continually running away from their realities – denial, withdrawal. I did that for a long, long time too.”

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Enquirer is like Fox News in print

The toxicity of the paparazzi mixed with the bullsh*t of the alt-right.

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What the ****!?

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F*CK the National Enquirer but this story doesn't sound too awful? Correct me if I'm wrong but it just sounds like they're collating different people's experiences with the Hoffman Process, just because it worked for her doesn't mean it worked for everyone else.

Her attempt to delegitimize critique under the guise of 'mental health' IS coming off sort of cult-y.

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Katy perry who has mocked mental health countless times now wants to be an advocate for mental health. Sksksks

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8 minutes ago, Runway said:

Katy perry who has mocked mental health countless times now wants to be an advocate for mental health. Sksksks

Are you saying she shouldn’t be an advocate for mental health?