• Katy Perry posted a viral TikTok on May 11 jokingly mourning ex Josh Groban’s engagement to actress Natalie McQueen
• The clip featured Perry dramatically chugging a drink in a bathrobe while her song “The One That Got Away” played — which she wrote about Groban
• Perry and Groban briefly dated in 2009 and have remained close friends ever since
• Groban reacted to being the song’s inspiration back in 2018, saying he was completely blindsided by the confession
• Perry is currently dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Only Katy Perry could turn her ex’s engagement announcement into the most entertaining thing on the internet this week.

The pop star posted a TikTok on May 11 reacting to news that Josh Groban had proposed to British musical theatre actress Natalie McQueen after nearly four years together. The video shows Perry — dressed in a white bathrobe — staring at a screenshot of the engagement headlines before slowly pouring herself a comically overflowing glass of what appears to be champagne. She then chugs it, spilling the drink down her face and robe, before dramatically sobbing and walking away.

The soundtrack? Her own 2011 hit “The One That Got Away.” The song she once admitted she wrote about Groban.

She captioned the whole thing simply: “congrats 🥂”

@katyperry

congrats 🥂

♬ The One That Got Away – Katy Perry

The comment section immediately lost it. Many fans were so caught off guard by the video that they didn’t even realize it was actually Perry’s account. “I was like ‘oh she looks like Katy Perry’ looked at the profile picture then the account name and was like ‘wait that is Katy Perry,'” one fan wrote alongside a string of laughing emojis. Another commented, “I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE THIS IS KATY PERRY’S ACCOUNT.” A third simply wrote: “Katy, you accidentally pressed the post button.”

Others couldn’t get over the song choice. “The song is about Josh Groban,” one fan pointed out, as if helpfully filling in anyone who’d missed the decade-old backstory. Someone else joked to Perry, “This is bold and I love it, maybe they will break their engagement for you.” And a few genuinely seemed concerned: “Baby are you ok?”

The Song, the Confession, and the Double-Take

For anyone who needs the full context: Perry and Groban briefly dated back in 2009. The relationship was quiet — both of them kept it private — and it ended relatively quickly. Then in 2011, Perry released “The One That Got Away,” a sweeping, nostalgic ballad about a teenage love lost. Nobody thought much about who it was written about.

Until 2017, when Perry casually dropped the information during a weekend-long livestream promoting her Witness album, telling fans that Groban was indeed the inspiration.

Groban found out the same way everyone else did. A year later, appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, he was still processing it. “I was not expecting that. That was a double take and a spit of my coffee when I saw that,” he said. “It’s very sweet of her to say that. I’m very flattered by it. But I was very surprised by it too.”

Then he actually went back and listened to the lyrics — and got even more confused. “I’m like, ‘I never owned a Mustang. I don’t have a tattoo. Are you sure that’s about me?'” he laughed. The song’s first verse describes making out in a Mustang, getting matching tattoos on an 18th birthday, and sneaking parents’ liquor — none of which matched Groban’s biography in any obvious way.

Still, he was warm about it. “We’ve been very, very good friends to this day,” he said. “She’s the best.”

On why they split in the first place, Groban kept it simple: “We were both very private and we realized we were better as friends.”

Where Everyone Stands Now

There’s no real heartbreak here — just excellent comedic timing. Perry, 41, has been dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the two have been making their public debut as a couple in recent months. Last month, they attended Netflix’s Beef Season 2 Montecito Tastemaker event together at the California home of Netflix executive Ted Sarandos — an evening that also happened to include Perry’s ex-fiancé Orlando Bloom among the guests, though reports didn’t confirm whether the former couple actually crossed paths during the night.

Groban, 45, meanwhile, is very much taken. He proposed to McQueen in April after nearly four years together, and Perry’s TikTok — champagne-soaked bathrobe and all — was her way of sending them off in the most Katy Perry way imaginable.

“We’ve been very, very good friends to this day,” Groban said back in 2018. The TikTok pretty much confirms that’s still true — you don’t post something like that about someone you’re not completely at peace with.

Congrats to the happy couple. And to Katy Perry, for once again making the internet a more entertaining place.

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• Christina Ricci commented “Yikes” on a Variety Instagram post featuring Katy Perry at the 2026 Met Gala
• Perry attended the event in a face-covering metallic mask and custom Stella McCartney gown amid the Ruby Rose allegations
• Ruby Rose has accused Perry of sexual assault at a Melbourne nightclub in 2010 — Perry’s rep calls it “categorically false”
• Victoria Police have confirmed an investigation into the alleged 2010 incident is underway
• An insider says Perry is worried the scandal could impact her relationship with Justin Trudeau

Christina Ricci said everything she needed to say in one word.

The Addams Family actress dropped a pointed “Yikes” in the comments of a Variety Instagram post featuring Katy Perry and Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie at the 2026 Met Gala — and the internet immediately took notice. The post showed Perry in her now-viral Stella McCartney gown and mirrored metallic face mask, with Storrie, 26, playfully covering his own face with one hand to match her look. Two additional individual portraits of the stars in their full looks rounded out the carousel.

Ricci’s comment was short. It didn’t need to be anything else.

https://www.instagram.com/p/variety_met_gala_perry_storrie

Fans flooded the replies in agreement. “Came here just to like the comment,” one person wrote. Another simply added, “you said it, girl!” Others were more forgiving of Perry’s eccentric look — one commenter wrote “Okay Katy, i kinda like it 🤍” — while someone else joked about Storrie getting to ask Perry if she’d “ever felt like a plastic bag drifting through the wind,” a nod to her hit “Firework.”

The timing of Ricci’s comment is hard to ignore. She and Ruby Rose co-starred in the 2013 Australian film Around the Block, and Rose is currently at the center of a serious and ongoing allegation against Perry. Whether Ricci’s “Yikes” was a fashion critique, a statement of solidarity, or both — she’s not saying. Reps for Ricci did not return requests for comment.

The Ruby Rose Allegations, and Where Things Stand

Rose, 40, publicly accused Perry of sexual assault last month in a Threads post responding to a Complex Music update about Perry’s reaction to Justin Bieber’s Coachella performance. “Katy Perry sexually assaulted me at Spice Market nightclub in Melbourne,” Rose wrote. “Who gives a s–t what she thinks.”

In a follow-up post, Rose said it had taken her “almost two decades” to come forward. “Though I am so grateful to have made it long enough to find my voice, it just shows how much of an impact trauma and sexual assault takes. Thank you for seeing me,” she wrote. Rose has since said she’s filed a police report and finalized statements with authorities, adding that she is “no longer able to comment, repost, or talk publicly” about the cases or the individuals involved.

Victoria Police confirmed to multiple outlets that detectives from the Melbourne Sexual Offenses and Child Abuse Investigation Team are actively investigating a “historical sexual assault that occurred in Melbourne in 2010” at a licensed premises in the city’s Central Business District. Crucially, as Jacqueline Harris, a rep for Victoria’s Office of Public Prosecution, confirmed to TMZ: “There is no statute of limitations on prosecuting indictable (serious) crimes in Victoria.”

Perry has not been charged. Her rep issued a firm denial, calling Rose’s allegations “not only categorically false, they are dangerous reckless lies,” and pointing to what they described as Rose’s “well-documented history of making serious public allegations on social media against various individuals, claims that have repeatedly been denied by those named.”

The Mask, the Meaning, and the Moment

Perry’s Met Gala appearance — her first major public outing since the allegations broke — was impossible to miss and impossible to interpret simply. She arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a custom ivory Stella McCartney gown cut from Italian deadstock duchess satin, a burned satin train (reportedly designed as a nod to her upcoming single “Watch It Burn”), and a metallic mirror headpiece custom-designed by Miodrag Guberinic. The mask, according to a press release, was “designed to be a literal and symbolic reflection that invites the observer to consider that their perception of others can mirror their own internal world, and conversely mask truth.”

She skipped red carpet interviews entirely.

The look drew immediate comparisons online — “fencing astronaut” was a popular one, nodding to Perry’s Blue Origin space flight last year. One fan wrote “this eve from wall-e serve,” another said “I need this helmet for when my social battery runs out,” and a more pointed commenter simply wrote “im irritated she SHOULDVE STAYED HOME WTF IS THIS?”

There was also a detail that sent fans into a separate spiral entirely: Perry’s opera-length gloves appeared to have six fingers — a widely recognized hallmark of AI-generated imagery. Given that Perry was at the center of viral fake AI photos purporting to show her at the Met Gala in both 2024 and 2025, many fans read the extra finger as a deliberate, knowing joke. Perry appeared to lean into the conversation with a playful post after the gala, and the Magician tarot card she carried as an accessory only added to the air of intentional symbolism.

She did eventually lift the mask on the carpet, revealing her face to photographers.

Justin Trudeau Is Sticking by Her — For Now

Behind the spectacle, sources close to Perry say the situation is taking a real toll. An insider described things as “horribly painful” for the pop star, who is reportedly anxious about how the investigation could affect her relationship with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“Justin is being 100 percent supportive, but it’s still a horribly painful situation,” the insider said. “Katy can’t help but worry about how it could impact things with him. He has his own image to protect.”

A separate Canadian society source previously told Page Six that the allegations represent “the first challenge they’ve faced since they’ve been together,” describing Trudeau — long known as a vocal advocate for gender equality and women’s rights — as being in an “awkward situation.” The source noted that his progressive public identity makes the timing especially complicated: “This could put a little bit of a dent into their coupledom.”

The insider’s final word on Perry’s mindset: “Katy is confident that she will be cleared — but it’s still a nightmare.”

Meanwhile, Perry is pressing forward with what’s shaping up to be a major musical comeback — a summer tour, her eighth studio album tentatively titled Scorpion Drama, and the upcoming single “Watch It Burn.” Whether the world is ready to receive it the way she’s hoping is, right now, very much an open question.

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