Katy Perry has spent the better part of fifteen years on stage trying to convince audiences she means it. In a People interview published Sunday morning to coincide with the Lifetimes Tour concert film’s post-Tribeca push, the 41-year-old singer offered an unusually direct theory for why she finally does: her almost-six-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom.
“I think when mothers can be their most supported, authentic selves, that is always a good template for children to model,” Perry told the magazine. “And I’m glad to model a strong, steady, intelligent, funny, weird woman for my daughter.”
The quote landed as Perry stepped into the final phase of an unusually loaded press cycle. Her concert film The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 8, captured by sixty cameras inside the Accor Arena in Paris last November and then assembled into a feature directed by Paul Dugdale. Perry did the post-screening Q&A herself. Her red-carpet debut with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the night’s most-photographed moment, but the People sit-down was where she did the unguarded talking.
Daisy was born in August 2020, the only child Perry has had with British actor Orlando Bloom. The two ended their nine-year on-and-off relationship in June 2025 and have shared custody since, mostly out of view; Perry has talked about Daisy maybe four times in interviews in the last two years, and almost never by name. The Sunday People piece is the closest thing to a manifesto she has offered on the subject.
“She is my soulmate,” Perry said. “She makes me a better artist, because I am thinking about how she will hear what I make in twenty years. That is a very different filter.” According to AOL’s report on the same interview, Perry also discussed the tour rider she now keeps for Daisy when the five-year-old joins her on the road: a small drawing kit, a stuffed elephant called Mr. Greene, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a no-phone rule for any adult in the dressing room.
The Lifetimes Tour itself is the connective tissue. Perry’s 91-stop global run ended in Paris in November and is, in concert-film form, the longest single document of her live show ever released. The film opens with Daisy’s voice singing the first two bars of Firework over the production logo, a moment Perry told People she included against her management’s recommendation because the daughter “wanted to be part of it.” The same recording closes the soundtrack album, out via Capitol on June 27.
Perry’s Daisy comments arrived in a week unusually crowded with celebrity-mother content. Rosie O’Donnell published a tearful poem after visiting her 28-year-old daughter Chelsea in prison. Joan Cusack used her first red carpet in 11 years to argue she stayed gone for her two sons. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen marked their 40th birthday in deliberate silence as their sister Elizabeth’s pregnancy news did the talking. Perry’s version is the most extroverted of the bunch, and the only one that ends with a tour soundtrack release.
The next stop is theatrical. The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris opens in approximately seven hundred US cinemas on July 11, then expands internationally through early August. Perry has confirmed a small Daisy-themed art-book release timed to the film’s wide opening, with proceeds to a Los Angeles arts-education nonprofit she has supported since 2019. There is no second leg of the tour planned. Perry told People she wants the rest of 2026 “in the house, with the kid, making things.”
The Trudeau half of the press cycle will continue to absorb the gossip-page oxygen. The Daisy half, Perry’s interview suggests, is the part she actually cares about putting on record. “Strong, steady, intelligent, funny, weird,” she said. “I want her to know that is what is on the other side of all this.”
