Originally appeared on E! Online
Katy Perry is already brushing off the dust.
During the July 18 performance of her Lifetimes tour at San Francisco’s Chase Center, the “Firework” singer was involved in a scary incident in which she nearly fell off a huge flying butterfly in mid-air.
In a video shared to X July 19, Perry—who split from Orlando Bloom last month following a nine-year relationship—abruptly stopped singing her hit song “Roar” when the prop, which was suspended over the crowd, seemed to suddenly fall a few feet due to a shift in the wiring.
With a terrified look on her face, the singer held onto the body of the butterfly for stability while the prop continued to swing back and forth from the sudden movement. But once the prop seemed to regain stability, she raised her hand to signal that she was okay and gracefully went on to sing the rest of the song.
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Hours later, the 40-year-old hilariously shared a zoomed-in picture of her horrified reaction to her Instagram Stories alongside the caption, “Goodnight San Fran.”
After all, Perry—who shares 4-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with her estranged husband—is no stranger to rolling with the punches during a performance.
During one of her shows in Australia last month, the “California Gurls” singer was being lifted over the audience in a giant metallic sphere, as seen in a video shared to X, when the prop seemed to tilt to one side, leaving her gripping onto the cables to keep from falling.
And back when she was a judge on American Idol, she had to navigate some of the unexpected malfunctions on live television.
“It seems like every season something falls off, breaks, tears and the people love it,” Perry told E! News last April after her top broke in the middle of an episode. “So give the people what they want.”
“I have nothing to lose,” she added, “besides my top.”
And Perry isn’t the first artist to be faced with frightening onstage mishaps. Indeed, Beyoncé faced a similar situation during the first of two Cowboy Carter shows at Houston’s NRG Stadium last month.
While she was singing “16 Carriages,” the Grammy winner appeared to be stuck in a car suspended above the crowd after it began to tilt in mid-air.
So, she abruptly stopped singing, per a video shared to TikTok June 28, and instead started repeating, “Stop, stop, stop” into the microphone until she was safely lowered down to the center of the stadium.
“If ever I fall,” she quipped after returning to the stage, “I know y’all would catch me.”
