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Katy Perry is forced to cancel concert just HOURS before taking to the stage: 'No choice'

Katy Perry was forced to cancel her show at the Belgian music festival Werchter Boutique on Saturday just hours before taking to the stage. The 41-year-old song...

Katy Perry is forced to cancel concert just HOURS before taking to the stage: 'No choice'
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was forced to cancel her show at the Belgian music festival Werchter Boutique on Saturday just hours before taking to the stage. 

The 41-year-old songstress, who recently which seemingly targeted ex Orlando Bloom, shared a post to Instagram as she explained to fans that she had 'no choice.' 

Perry had been slated to close out the festival on Saturday following Pitbull's set, but dangerous weather conditions prevented her from doing so. 

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'Sadly my set @WerchterBoutique tonight can't happen due to a government mandated cancellation because of the incoming inclement weather and crowd safety concerns,' she penned in the caption. 

The Dark Horse hitmaker said that she had been backstage getting ready for her show 'when this news was delivered, and they gave me no choice.

'I am just as unhappy as you are,' she continued, before adding that the situation 'is beyond my control' and the safety of attendees is the main priority. 

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Katy Perry, 41, was forced to cancel her show at the Belgian music festival Werchter Boutique on Saturday just hours before taking to the stage; seen earlier this month in L.A. 

Perry had been slated to close out the festival on Saturday following Pitbull's set but dangerous weather conditions prevented her from doing so

'I am sorry I can't change the weather, and even sorrier that all of us can't be together tonight.' 

Perry concluded her message to fans by expressing her disappointment that she cannot celebrate her return to the festival stage after her last appearance back in 2009. 

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The mom-of-one has been keeping busy and dropped the music video to her new track Watch It Burn on Thursday

Fans shared their thoughts about the song and music video on social media, with one penning, 'SHES SO BACK, ABSOLUTE CINEMA.'

Another wrote, 'Katy Perry should stick to her signature sound. This song is so her! This is her DNA! Hope the upcoming album is simply like THAT!'

'She is literally back this reminds me of old katy,' one typed, and another said, 'This is so 2008 and I'm here for it.'

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During a recent appearance on the Unfamous podcast, Perry explained that when it comes to the track, she is 'wrestling with my darkness, but last year was pretty tough.'

The songstress added, 'I have not given myself permission to be angry my whole life over things where I should be f***ing angry about.

'What I've done is I pushed it down, but I should be f***ing angry. I'm allowed to be angry for a f***ing moment.' 

Perry later shared during the interview that she has 'love in my life now. That's transformed me,' referring to her relationship with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. 

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The pair were first romantically linked back in July of last year when they were seen grabbing dinner in Montreal during the Canadian leg of her Lifetimes Tour.

During a recent appearance on the Unfamous podcast , Perry explained that when it comes to the track, she is 'wrestling with my darkness, but last year was pretty tough'; seen in 2025 in Abu Dhabi 

The songstress added, 'I have not given myself permission to be angry my whole life over things where I should be f***ing angry about'; Perry and Bloom seen in 2025 

Later that month, Trudeau was spotted in the crowd at one of her Lifetimes Tour concerts.

In October 2025, the couple went public with their romance as they .

And late last year in December, the couple went Instagram official as the songstress shared a post featuring her beau from their trip to Tokyo. 

The couple made their red carpet debut at the 25th Annual Tribeca Festival in NYC earlier this month.

Perry had been  

The songstress notably confessed that Trudeau was the 'love of my life' during a Q+A session following the screening; seen earlier this month in NYC 

The songstress notably confessed that Trudeau was the 'love of my life' during a Q+A session following the screening. 

'I would say now at the end of 91 shows, I feel like a more grounded person in so many aspects of my life. I am very in love.' 

She added, 'Actually, that show was after I met the love of my life, and so I felt very anchored by that, because I'm a little bit like a rainbow kite.

'I fly super high and like touch the veiled cosmos, and sometimes I need to be anchored, so to have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.' 

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