Carrie Underwood is keeping her feet on Earth.
The “Before He Cheats” singer, 42, declared that she has no plans to travel to space when asked about Katy Perry’s controversial Blue Origin mission in a recent interview with Access Hollywood.
“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,” Underwood said.
She added: “So, that will be the day I leave this Earth.”
Underwood won “American Idol” in 2005. She replaced Perry, 40, as a judge on the current season of the ABC series. Perry was on the show for 7 seasons.
Fellow judge Lionel Richie also weighed in on Perry’s space journey.
My first impression was, ‘Get out the capsule,’” he 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.’”
The “Endless Love” singer, 75, joked, “Lionel Richie is having trouble navigating earth and gravity. Just walking straight everyday is a daunting task at the point in my life.”
When asked if he’d go to space, Richie responded. “I’ve been in space since ’76, what are you talking about? Listen, when you have Parliament-Funkadelic, the Ohio Players and Bootsy Collins, and we’re all out front, and the answer is, ‘Am I going to space?’ I’m trying to come back from space!”
Perry flew to space on April 14 with Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe and astronaut/activist Amanda Nguyen.
The 11-minute trip was lambasted by numerous celebrities.
Olivia Munn dubbed the historic journey “gluttonous,” while Amy Schumer and Olivia Wilde mocked the launch. Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski said the mission was “confusing” and “beyond parody.”
Perry took the most heat of the women onboard. She was slammed by fast-food chain Wendy’s and by the son of the 85-year-old veteran she’s suing for damages.
The “Firework” singer faced further backlash when she seemingly tailored the outfits, choreography and several props on her Lifetimes Tour as a tribute to the space voyage.
Perry finally addressed the hate she’s gotten in a reply comment on an Instagram fan page last week.
“Please know I am ok, I have done a lot work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me,” she said.
The pop star added that “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.”
She also told her fans that she’s “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.”
