Katy Perry calls out the Telegraph for recycling quotes about Russell Brand

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Yesterday, the Daily Telegraph ran a Katy Perry interview that made me roll my eyes. The paper quoted Katy about how Russell Brand dumped her via text message around Christmas 2011: “He hasn’t spoken to me since he texted me saying he was filing for divorce. I don’t want to talk about him — my songs will say what I need to say.” Given Katy’s pattern for bringing up Rusty for years (she also discussed the matter with Vogue), I fell for the interview. This is the same woman who signed divorce papers with a happy face, you know? Russell may have been harsh and immature enough to dump Katy via text, but at least he’s stayed pretty classy when discussing her in the press. Anyway, Katy owned the Telegraph.

Katy’s also been doing some PR rounds. She threatened promised a new album by 2016. She spoke with Idolator about how her new album will be a reinvention: “Because I can’t keep topping myself because I’ll just combust at some point.” She promised to “craft songs about real life experiences” after her Prismatic tour concludes. What will she write about? Well, she may end up writing about her marriage with Rusty after all. It wouldn’t surprise me. But the Telegraph shouldn’t have re-run those quotes from an old interview.

All of that nonsense aside, I do respect Katy’s blind ambition. Her grandiose statements about talent aren’t even that annoying. Katy knows exactly what she’s doing with her career. Her love life is another story, but many of us aren’t doing any better.

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  1. Shambles says:

    I watch Rusty’s YouTube show, “The Trews,” and knowing what I know about him, it kind of baffles me that he got with Katy in the first place. He’s extremely intelligent– a very deep thinker. All about consciousness and transcendent thought. And she’s… Cupcake boobs. Pretty shallow. Pretty vapid. I know he was pretty d*ckish to her, and I feel for her in that respect. But I still just can’t fathom his attraction to her, so I’m leaning towards the idea that it was purely sexual, he got vagina/boob-matized, and put a ring on it by accident.

    • Sullivan says:

      +1
      In fact, I think so highly of Brand that I assumed there must be a whole lot more to Katy than I’d previously thought. Nope. He was temporarily made deaf and dumb by her rhapsodic rack.

      • Shambles says:

        I think the hand-on-butt in the first photo lends some credibility to our theory.

    • Hannah says:

      I adore rusty, and I am no Katy Perry fan but being English I have to say I don’t really get this pov that he he is so above dating someone like Katy and must have married her for her boobs.
      Rusty is a womaniser and he was dating a succession of wannabe models and the sort before katy. He was hardly dating amongst the intelligentsia, Katy was very much his type. I think if anything he was blinded by her fame and landing the biggest pop star at the time.
      He also has a history of being quite immature ( see the Jonathan Ross incident) to his exes.
      A lot of intelligent men date women purely for their look/sex appeal or how good they look on their arm.

      • Shambles says:

        Yeah, I’ve always heard that he was a womanizer. I don’t think he was above marrying someone like Katy, it just amazes me that he who is so adamant about social consciousness and spiritual growth could stand to be around someone so shallow for more than 5 minutes at a time. I was just musing over the fact that they couldn’t have had any type of intellectual connection, but as you said, Rusty is/was probably the type of person who was more concerned with the connection of his junk to hers.

      • We Are All Made of Stars says:

        +1

        He is no genius and no angel. He was busy doing sketchy crap with women and telling crass jokes, no shade on that one if that’s your thing. He wrote a book that sounds like it was written by an unmedicated four year old with a raging case of ADD in which he instructed people who live under a monarchy and with inherited political positions to not vote as an act of political protest and empowerment. I saw him promoting the book on English TV and although the host was a horse’s rear, there was no doubt that he at least lacked the ability to articulate his positions in an intelligible manner. He also got his butt handed to him in an atheist debate by Stephen Frye, I think. He clearly does put a lot of earnest thought into serious issues. I’ll totally give him that.

      • WinterLady says:

        +1 Intelligence doesn’t equal maturity or common sense, so it’s no surprise that Brand was attracted to and married the razzle-dazzle of Katy Perry. I’m also no Perry fan (husband is into her music, I can’t stand it) but I’ve heard that she is a sweet person in real life. So I think it is possible she has something else to give to someone then her body or her sparkling intellect.

      • The Original Mia says:

        I chalk it up to 80% Katy dislike/20% Rusty says something intelligent and well-thought out. I love Katy, so I’ve never understood what she saw in Brand, but figured it was either lust or mutual experiences. They never should have married. Neither one is blameless in its demise.

      • ella says:

        Hannah – I agree, I’m a longtime fan of Russell but he’s always had this kind of taste in women. To the people noticing a contradiction between his intellectual/spiritual side and the women he chooses — that’s the paradox of him. He seems so enlightened in some ways but his sexuality is not one of those ways. To his credit, he totally owns up to this on a regular basis — he has talked on various episodes of the Trews about how his sexuality is very unevolved and simple and he doesn’t know how to get past that. He seems to at least be doing somewhat better in recent years – he was with Jemima Khan for a year and she’s a very strong and intelligent woman. He’s dialed way back on the dating of random floozies; I can’t remember the last time he was papped with anyone like that.

    • Sixer says:

      I think the Telegraph just wanted to take a pot shot at Brand. 9m Twitter followers and an attack-the-establishment video series has made him top target for the British Tory press and the Torygraph is also in the middle of descent-into-tabloid hell, isn’t it?

      I like Rusty. I think he met Perry at a time when he was working in Hollywood mostly and they had a crazy insane love fest that would never have lasted and fell apart badly.

      I’m kinda rooting for him because I like his willingness to risk public mistakes with that Trews series. I like it that he owns up to past misdeeds. And, unlike a lot of people – tabloids and identity activists both – I like him for acknowledging his latent sexism and owning up that it’s a work in progress for him to get rid of it.

      I wouldn’t get hoity toity over Perry being an ongoing biyotch over the break up either. We’ve all done it. When it stops upsetting us, we stop doing it.

      • Shambles says:

        I enjoyed watching him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and then I saw a clip of him taking on the Westboro Baptist Church (a hate-group that spends its time picketing the funerals of American Soliders with signs that say things like “God Hates Fags”, in case you’re not familiar), and I became a full-on Rusty-Loonie. I’m a yoga teacher and dedicated yogi, so I enjoy his thoughts on yoga and mediation. And now, with The Trews, I can watch him take on current social issues in that extremely logical, no-bullsh*t, yet full of dry humor way that he has. I’m rooting for him as well.

    • Sara says:

      +1.

    • Isabelle says:

      Doesn’t he usually date girls more on the dingy side of things? He may be smart but seems he doesn’t like his women to be smarter than him.

    • sauvage says:

      I would be VERY careful when it comes to Russell Brand. To me, he seems to be the kind of guy who, yes, is intelligent and good at talking the (spiritual) talk, but not so much at walking the actual walk. People can easily say a lot of stuff, but their deeds are going to tell you way more about where they are actually at. Russell Brand has a well-documented history of being a total d*ck to women. I wouldn’t trust him any farther than I can throw him.

  2. Liz says:

    Some people can say or do things that are extremely callous and hurtful in private (Russell), but be very dignified in public. I don’t admire that type of person. Can’t blame Perry for venting.

    • Whinehouse says:

      Yes, totally agree. I actually like both Katy and Russell but only those two can really know what their relationship was like. A public persona does not reveal what was really going on.

  3. lem says:

    i’m sorry but i can’t get over their hair in these pictures. literally must’ve been passing the curling wand back and forth…

    • Snazzy says:

      ha ha ha I was thinking that too! Matching curls! That’s why they divorced. A battle over hair products 😛

    • Shambles says:

      She used his last bottle of Nice n’ Easy “Rock Star Black,” and that’s when he texted her to ask for a divorce.

  4. Lisa says:

    Didn’t he say that Katy was gone all the time and he could never talk with her so he sent a text? I remember reading that she was wanting to go out and party often and that was not something that fit into his sober lifestyle. I remember him saying she was very mia..

    • PhenomenalWoman says:

      And he didn’t know this before they married how … He knew she was a singer and would go on tour. All of sudden she was supposed to stay home and bake cupcakes?

      • The Original Mia says:

        That has always chapped me about this divorce. As if he didn’t know he married a singer, who is at the height of her popularity, who would be touring. If he wanted Susie Homemaker, he should have married her and not Katy Perry.

    • Danny says:

      @ lisa
      According to her version of events.He wasn’t willing to travell to see her, she made all the effort to fly back to see him in the middle of a world tour. I am no big fan of either but when he married her he knew she was about to embark on a world tour so I don’t buy that excuse. I am sure they both have their faults.

  5. GlimmerBunny says:

    I know it ended a long time ago (and badly on top of that) but I just find them SO CUTE together. Katy looked much happier back then.

    • We Are All Made of Stars says:

      Poor Katy. I know a lot of people (okay everybody) on this site doesn’t like her, but she seems harmless and decent enough to me. I think this was a real relationship for both of them and that’s why it hurts her so badly. I think that she too has handled herself in a reasonably dignified (read: not perfect) way and I do tend to believe that he has a bit of the vindictive scoundrel behind-closed-doors backstabber in him as well. She seems to go for dudes who have a bad boy streak and completely have their own thing going.

  6. Seapharris7 says:

    Personally I think everyone else knew they were mismatched, but they didn’t keep “dating” long enough to figure it out before marrying. While, if it’s true that’s how they broke up, I think he’s a coward and/or has zero respect for her & the relationship. I’m not a Perry fan (at all), but he is smart – and while maybe he was just thinking with his little Rusty, I think he used her to become bigger in the US.

  7. Gilda says:

    Katy Perry seems like HIGH maintenance. I think any guy who takes her on needs to know it will be all about her, all the time. Somebody like Russell would never handle that. John Mayer doesn’t seem to be able to either. Not many guys can which is why very successful women find it a lot harder to find a permanent partner than men.

    • JENNA says:

      In these kinds of relationships someone has to make sacrifices.

      • Gilda says:

        Yup, which is why i don’t hold out hope for Taylor and Calvin either. He will soon tire of being her +1, though it will give him a boost in name recognition. Taylor and Katy will find it hard i think. Katy seems to have a massive entourage too, that’s gonna get annoying and i read that Taylor has a security detail on her 24/7 because she gets stalker threats….

      • Shambles says:

        Maybe Taylor and Katy just need to date each other then? Tayty? They could sing about girl cats kissing other girl cats and liking it.

      • We Are All Made of Stars says:

        I’ve never seen or heard anything that would make me believe that Kitty Purry is a threesome type. She’s very withdrawn and ladylike. 🙂

  8. JenniferJustice says:

    I watched an interview where she talked about how they met and the chemistry between them. I do think he was attracted not only to her body and sex appeal, but the fact that she wasn’t intimidated by him and they both thought they’d met their match as far as strength and being their own person. He was used to being fan-girled and she was impressive in her own right. I still think her partying did them in. He didn’t handle it right, but if I were trying to be sober (yah, right!) and my partner was drinking and drugging in front of me, away from me, not home with me and I had already made my needs clear, I wouldn’t be being uber sensitive to her or the social lly acceptable ways to break up. I’m still on Team Brand.

  9. LAK says:

    That happens all the time.

  10. lili says:

    Katy and Russell were cute together but I was always under the impression that her relationship with Mayer is more genuine than the one with rusty.

  11. Div says:

    Good for her for calling them out for recycling old quotes about her ex for hits. I’m no fan of Katy Perry’s, but that’s a ridiculous habit for journalists to do.

    • Ange says:

      I’ve had it done to me and I’m a nobody! I gave an interview to a local newspaper about my job and then a couple of years later every single quote word for word showed up on a much more prestigious website to coincide with a big international event that I had been working towards. I’d never even heard of the journalist in question, let alone spoken to him. I did send him a lovely email thanking him for the opportunity to be on his website though and I think he got the hint because when I ran into him at an event after that he wouldn’t even look at me and quickly exited.