Katy Perry: Barbara Walters Insulted Me

'Roar' singer, Katy Perry thinks that giving that end-of-marriage interview to Barbara Walters as her marriage was ending probably wasn't the greatest idea, according to E! Online.

To add insult to injury, Walters totally kicked her when she was down, according to the pop star's recall of events in a new interview with Billboard in advance of the release of her fourth studio album, PRISM, on Oct. 22.

"I shouldn't have done the interview," Perry admitted regarding her sit-down for Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011 special, which aired that December. "I was playing Madison Square Garden that same night, and I knew that the end of my marriage was coming.

I was just exhausted and stressed. I'd prepped everyone that I was running late, but Barbara showed up at the original time anyway," the "Roar" singer continued. "When I got there, I apologized immediately, but then she said to me, 'You know, I've only ever waited for one other person this long, and you know who that person was? Judy Garland.

You know how she turned out, right?' I was like, 'Oh, snap! Yes, bitch!'" But Perry has since concluded that the timing was just bad all around and she couldn't tell Walters what was really going at the time, which was barely a year after she and Russell Brand had tied the knot in a splashy ceremony in India.

"I think it's the coolest thing that Barbara Walters shaded me," Perry added. "I just couldn't tell her as we were sitting down for a mega-interview, 'Hey, my marriage is falling apart. Give me a break.'" Sure enough, just weeks after the Walters special aired, Brand filed for divorce.