Carrie Underwood makes thinly-veiled dig at former American Idol judge Katy Perry

American Idol judge Carrie Underwood weighed in on former judge Katy Perry’s Blue Origin space flight.

Carrie, 42, who won American Idol in its fifth season in 2005, replaced Perry on the long running singing competition last year and made a thinly-veiled dig at the controversial space mission.

‘The day I go to space will be when the good Lord decides my time on Earth here is done and he takes me home.

‘So, that will be the day I leave this Earth,’ she told Access Hollywood.

Lionel Richie, 75, also had an opinion about Katy’s space adventure.

‘My first impression was, “Get out the capsule.” It’s not that anything was going to go wrong. It’s just that I don’t like the phrase, “Never happened before.” So I said, “You go right on girl,”‘ he said.

American Idol judges Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood weighed in on former judge Katy Perry ‘s Blue Origin space flight

Carrie, 42, who won American Idol in its fifth season in 2005, replaced Perry on the long running singing competition last year

The Dancing on the Ceiling singer also said that he doesn’t have plans to follow in Katy‘s footsteps.

‘I’m having trouble navigating earth and gravity. Just walking straight everyday is a daunting task at the point in my life,’ he said when he was asked if he’d ever go to space himself.

Katy Perry, 40, served as a judge on American Idol for seven seasons and announced her departure from the show in February 24.

Carrie and Lionel’s comments come after Katy and five other accomplished women boarded and completed the space flight on April 14.

Many celebrities – notably Olivia Munn, Emily Ratajkowski, and Kesha – have publicly blasted the Blue Origin spaceflight including Katy Perry.

The 11-minute expedition – which took place on Monday – carried Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

Blue Origin is owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 61, who is engaged to Sanchez, 55.

Flight NS-31 marked the first launch with an all-female crew since Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo space flight in 1963.

 Lionel, 75, also had an opinion about Katy’s space adventure. ‘My first impression was, “Get out the capsule”‘

‘The day I go to space will be when the good Lord decides my time on Earth here is done and he takes me home. ‘So, that will be the day I leave this Earth,’ she told Access Hollywood

‘It’s not that anything was going to go wrong. It’s just that I don’t like the phrase, “Never happened before.” So I said, “You go right on girl,”‘ Lionel said. Katy seen here in 2024

The Dancing on the Ceiling singer also said that he doesn’t have plans to follow in Katy‘s footsteps

The mission was blasted by A-listers who had branded it ‘gluttonous’ and ‘planet destroying’ as many questioned what it actually does for society.

Meanwhile, Katy described herself as ‘a human piñata’ after she was repeatedly mocked online following her Blue Origin space flight.

And that appears to have been enough for the Firework singer to lambast her critics in an emotional rant.

Katy posted a lengthy message after being moved by a gesture from some of her most dedicated Brazilian fans, who clubbed together to pay for a digital billboard for 24 hours in New York’s Times Square declaring their support.

The billboard read: ‘Congratulations on the opening week of the tour. We are so proud of you and your magical journey. And we love you to the moon and back!

‘Know that you are safe, seen and celebrated. We’ll see you around the world, this is just the beginning! From your worldwide cats!’

Katy reacted to the gesture and hit out at the internet as ‘a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed.’

She wrote: ‘I’m so grateful for you guys. We’re in this beautiful and wild journey together. I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond

‘I’m having trouble navigating earth and gravity. Just walking straight everyday is a daunting task at the point in my life,’ he said when he was asked if he’d ever go to space himself. Seen here with Carrie in 2025

Katy Perry, 40, served as a judge on American Idol for seven seasons and announced her departure from the show in February 24

 ‘I love you guys and have grown up together with you and am so excited to see you all over the world this year!

‘Please know I am OK, I have done a lot [of] work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me.

‘My therapist said something years ago that has been a gamechanger, “no one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself” and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it’s an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it.

‘When the ‘online’ world tries to make me a human piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed.

‘I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond.’

She added: ‘I’m not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, I’m on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS.’