Katy Perry Roars Over Fall From Grace And Blames ‘American Idol’ For Ruining Her Reputation

Katy Perry has gone from a global superstar to a “human piñata” — and insiders claim she’s blaming her American Idol gig for her hitting rock bottom.

“Katy is at the end of her rope. She’s faced a backlash that’s unprecedented for an artist who didn’t do anything criminal,” a friend tells GLOBE. “And she’s convinced it all started with American Idol.”

Sources claim the “Teenage Dream” songbird, 40, pins her downfall on Idol producers who painted her as the show’s villain.

“Katy thought she was elevating her career as a judge on Idol, but now she says it left her overexposed and made her a punchline,” adds a source. “Katy wishes she’d never done the show.”

Back in 2010 and 2011, she was riding high, becoming the first female pop star to have a Top 10 hit on the Billboard charts for 52 consecutive weeks. That record has yet to be broken — even by her former nemesis Taylor Swift.

Katy’s career was still humming along when she signed a $25 million-a-year contract with Idol in 2018.

But fans accused her of being rude and condescending to contestants, and Katy was replaced by Carrie Underwood last year. After that, the knives were out.

In February, Katy and her fiancé, actor Orlando Bloom, were slammed when they sued a bedridden 85-year-old military veteran for $6 million after he backed out of a deal to sell them his Montecito, Calif., mansion.

Online haters also blasted Katy for working with music producer Dr. Luke, an accused rapist, on her latest album, 143. Critics clobbered the album, it flopped big-time, and her just-launched concert tour has been a fiasco with canceled dates and low ticket sales.

Then, in April, fellow celebs mocked Katy for her Blue Origin flight into space, branding her an elitist and glorified “passenger” on the trip.

Fed up, she finally clapped back, writing on Instagram that the “Online’ world tries to make [her] a human piñata.”

Despite all the drama, a friend insists that Katy’s personal life with partner Orlando and their 4-year-old daughter, Daisy, is blossoming.

“Sure, Katy didn’t put her best foot forward on Idol. But she also worked with a dirtbag of a producer, and made an awful album that nobody bought,” says the source. “You can’t blame that all on American Idol.”