After recently losing a lawsuit regarding her track “Dark Horse,” Katy Perry now finds herself in more legal trouble, as a former actor in one of her music videos has accused her of sexual harassment. Josh Kloss, who starred in Perry’s “Teenage Dream” music video, took to Instagram to discuss the incident as the nine year anniversary of the song closes in. The actor stated that he got to know Perry due to his involvement in the music video, which led to the altercation in question. 

 

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You know. After I met Katy, we sang a worship song, “open the eyes of my heart” She was cool and kind. When other people were around she was cold as ice even called the act of kissing me “gross” to the entire set while filming. Now I was pretty embarrassed but kept giving my all, as my ex was busy cheating on me and my daughter was just a toddler, I knew I had to endure for her sake. After the first day of shooting, Katy invited me to a strip club in Santa Barbara. I declined and told her “I have to go back to hotel and rest, because this job is all I have right now” So I saw Katy a couple times after her break up with Russel. This one time I brought a friend who was dying to meet her. It was Johny Wujek’s birthday party at moonlight roller way. And when I saw her, we hugged and she was still my crush. But as I turned to introduce my friend, she pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as she could to show a couple of her guy friends and the crowd around us, my penis. Can you imagine how pathetic and embarrassed i felt? I just say this now because our culture is set on proving men of power are perverse. But females with power are just as disgusting. So for all her good she is an amazing leader, hers songs are mainly great empowering anthems. And that is it. I continued to watch her use clips of her music videos for her world tour and then her dvd, only highlighting one of her male co-stars, and it was me. I made around 650 in total off of teenage dream. I was lorded over by her reps, about not discussing a single thing about anything regarding Katy publicly. And a couple interviews they edited and answered for me. So, happy anniversary to one of the most confusing, assaulting, and belittling jobs I’ve ever done. Yay #teenagedream I was actually gonna play the song and sing it on ukele for the anniversary, but then as I was tuning I thought, fuck this, I’m not helping her bs image another second.

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In his posts, Kloss alleges that Katy Perry harassed him at a party by pulling his pants to reveal his penis in front of a crowd. Prior to this, the actor had been a large fan of Perry and states he was shocked by her actions. Kloss goes on to write that he was told by Perry’s representatives to never say anything bad about the singer and that in interviews surrounding the music video he was told exactly how to answer about his relationship with Katy Perry. 

Kloss’ posts discuss the fact that he had always been too scared to share his experiences with the world, but decided now to break his silence. The actor also wrote that Perry consistently uses her music and her image to bring positivity into the world, while he alleges he had seen a different side of her. Kloss immediately received backlash from Perry’s fans, who accused him of making up the story to get attention. Josh responded to this in one of his posts, writing that he respected her fans for standing by somebody they care about, but that they should be putting their energy into people who are, in his view, more respectful towards those the work with. As of now there is no way to tell whether or not these allegations are true, with Kloss only having his word as proof. Hopefully as time goes on more light will be shed on the subject and the public will be able to figure out exactly what happened.

 

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For the strong youth defending their queen on here. I commend your heart behind your comments, which seeks to protect someone you idolize. #kimkardashian #krisjenner these are two women in a lot more power than Katy, AND TREATED me with RESPECT! perhaps you should give them your loyalty.

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I was supposed to minimize myself and stay PC to protect her “image” I listened and was a good boy. The fear sticks with you, when you are censored to protect someone else’s image. But in return treated like a prostitute and exposed in front of a group of her friends and other random people. Then you are shocked and you block it out, because you watch the face of children being uplifted by positive music she sang. And your mind is stuck trying to do your job and protect her bs image or be honest and help the global dialogue about power and abuse. And you hear over and over a million times that Males are the great evil on this planet. Meanwhile you know the truth POWER empowers what is corrupt in people, regardless of their gender. Folks I am putting us both out on display to increase and enlighten everyone. I don’t want money for this, Many of you project your own ambitions. I don’t want fame from this, that is why I stomached it and kept working, and kept supporting the “teenage dream” image. And this anniversary, and time elapse made me realize hey now is the time to let it out and let it go. Not one more day of hearing “How was Katy Perry?”

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