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Coming clean. Katy Perry revealed that for her parents, Mary Perry and Keith Hudson, it wasn’t always easy being a future superstar’s mom and dad.
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The songstress made the revelation when the American Idol judges opened up about their families while talking to reporters at a live taping on Sunday, May 13.
Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan all agreed that their parents were their very first fans.
“Yeah! Mom and dad,” Perry affirmed.
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Richie, 68, added: “Parents and your closest family. They’re the grounders because every time you want to get just a little bigger in your britches, you look over and there’s your mom sitting and looking at you and you just can’t go into character.”
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The “Witness” singer, 33, agreed, saying: “Oh, my God. We put our parents — I’m only speaking for me, from my experience — I put my parents through hell and back and back!”
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The singer-songwriter has been open about her strict religious upbringing, and has said her parents — who run Keith and Mary Hudson Ministries — were worried about some of her career choices, including her hit song “I Kissed a Girl.” But Perry says her mom has always been supportive of her singing, even when Perry was a child.
“Honestly, my nieces sing themselves to sleep when they go to nap time,” she revealed. “My mom told me that’s what I used to do and that’s why she would call me ‘bird’ because I used to sing myself to sleep during nap time.”
While the show was airing, Perry shared three throwback snaps on Instagram of herself as a baby with mom Mary.
She showed off a pic of her mom’s baby bump, one of them together in a hospital bed and one of herself as a toddler. “Are you watching this Mother’s Day themed #AmericanIdol?” she captioned the sweet post. “I hope you’re tuning in and snuggling with your mama! ❤👩👧#happymothersday.”
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