Mags Gargan
Pop star Katy Perry has revealed that God has helped her through dark times in her life when she considered suicide.
The singer, whose real name is Katheryn Hudson, said her inner battle between her true identity and her pop star identity as Katy Perry, drove her to depression and suicide.
“I so badly want to be Katheryn Hudson that I don’t even want to look like Katy Perry anymore sometimes — and, like, that is a little bit of why I cut my hair because I really want to be my authentic self,” she said of her new short locks.
The star, who started out as a gospel singer and is the daughter of Pentecostal pastors, said she struggled with a lot of shame during her low and suicidal points in her life.
Ashamed
“I feel ashamed that I would have those thoughts, feel that low and that depressed,” she said, explaining that she believes it was the grace of God that pulled her out of her depression.
“I wrote that song ‘By the Grace of God’ because I do believe in something much bigger than me and I call that God for me,” she said. “I know that God has his hand on me, and I know sometimes I go through things and they’re just too intense and I can’t handle them and then he swoops in and he shows me that it’s his grace that brings me through it.”
