Katy Perry's father, evangelical minister Keith Hudson, said he will be "always proud" of his daughter no matter what path she decides to take in life.
Perry and her parents reportedly had a falling out especially after the singer propelled into fame with the song "I Kissed a Girl."
But right before his daughter's Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, Hudson clarified in an interview with the Daily Mail that he doesn't have a problem with his daughter's career.
At the same time, Perry insisted that she has a great relationship with her parents despite their contrasting views.
"People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents-like, how that can exist," Perry earlier told Marie Claire. "There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with everything they do. They're at peace with - they pray for me is what they do."
The singer and her parents also have different political views, and that is why she does not allow them to attend certain performances, such as United State President Barack Obama's inauguration.
"My parents are Republicans, and I'm not," she also told Marie Claire. "They didn't vote for Obama, but when I was asked to sing at the inauguration, they were like, 'We can come.' And I was like, 'No, you can't.'"
However, there's nothing more painful for Perry's parents to deal with than the fact that their daughter is not a Christian.
"They ask how can I preach if I produce a girl who sang about kissing another girl? I was at a concert of Katy's where there were 20,000. I'm watching this generation and they were going at it. It almost looked like church. I stood there and wept and kept on weeping and weeping," Hudson said in a sermon last year. "They're loving and worshipping the wrong thing."
Perry still believes in the power of prayer. Her song "By the Grace of God" narrates her journey overcoming depression after separating from husband and actor Russell Brand back in 2011.
She also highlighted Bible verse Psalm 113:9, and how it comforts her during hard times.
"When the Lord took me to that verse, He showed me what was missing," she told Elle magazine. "I needed to get happy before there was anything to be happy about. My attitude had to change. I had to drop the dismal, doubting-Thomas stance to let Him inhabit my praises."
