Katy Perry Denies Ruby Rose’s Melbourne Nightclub Sexual Assault Allegation As “Dangerous, Reckless Lies”
CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses alleged sexual assault.
Katy Perry has denied Ruby Rose’s allegation that she sexually assaulted the Australian actor at a Melbourne nightclub nearly two decades ago, calling the claims “categorically false”.
In a statement shared with multiple outlets, a representative for Perry said: “The allegations being circulated on social media by Ruby Rose about Katy Perry are not only categorically false, they are dangerous, reckless lies.
“Ms. Rose has a well-documented history of making serious public allegations on social media against various individuals, claims that have repeatedly been denied by those named.”
Rose first made the claim on Sunday night in the comments of a Threads post about Perry reacting to Justin Bieber’s Coachella set.
“Katy Perry sexual assaulted me at Spice Market nightclub in Melbourne. Who gives a shit what she thinks,” she wrote. In follow-up posts, the Orange Is The New Black star alleged the incident happened when she was in her early twenties and said she had photos and witnesses, as well as indicating she had filed a police report, though she did not clarify what incident it related to.
“[Perry] didn’t kiss me,” Rose claimed in one post.
“She saw me ‘resting’ on my best friend’s lap to avoid her and bent down, pulled her underwear to the side and rubbed her disgusting vagina on my face until my eyes snapped open and I projectile vomited on her.”
She said she had previously framed the story as a wild night out.
“I told the story publicly but changed it to be a ‘funny little drunk story’ because I didn’t know how else to handle it,” she wrote, adding that Perry apparently later helped her with a US visa.
Rose also reflected on why she’s only now speaking in detail about the alleged encounter. “I was only in my early 20s,” she wrote. “I’m now 40. It has taken almost two decades to say this publicly. 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.”
In another post, she said: “For a myriad of reasons, opening up about W on W [women-on-women] violence and sexual abuse, seems to be 100 times harder than speaking about the male predators, at least for me.”
Perry has not personally commented on Rose’s posts beyond the statement from her team.
The allegation comes as Rose is in the midst of a career reset and a more public conversation about trauma and healing. In a recent chat with PEDESTRIAN.TV about her SBS docuseries The Hospital: In The Deep End, she spoke about taking a step back from Hollywood after a serious on‑set injury, describing that period as “healing” rather than a simple sabbatical.
“It kind of made me go, ‘Okay, what am I doing? What really matters to me? Am I even telling the stories that I dreamed of telling, or am I just running around with a gun, shooting bad guys now?’” she said.
Talking about how that accident and its fallout still affects her, she added: “My throat — and it’s happening now — but my throat will close up, and I can’t speak properly, because my body thinks it’s being attacked again.”
