A flashy, sexually-charged pop star in her public persona, Katy Perry’s serious side comes out when interviews turn to her religious upbringing.

Raised by Christian missionary parents, Perry lived within an evangelical world that she now realizes was close-minded and limited.

“I didn’t have a childhood,” Perry said during an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.

“”I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there… I didn’t know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn’t have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control.”

Perry also told the magazine that she wasn’t allowed to use words such as  “Devil Dog” or “Dirt Devil”, and that her family was “very non-accepting.”

Now married to comedian Russell Brand, Perry is now a practicing Buddhist and doesn’t shy away from flaunting her sex appeal.

Meanwhile, Perry’s mother is now shopping a book about raising the star in which she says that she thinks her daughter could become a great televangelist.

“I recognized the psalmist gift in her performance. Yet she sang out, ‘I kissed a girl, and I liked it,’ while thousands joined her. One part of my heart soared… the other part broke for the thousands of hungry souls being fed something that didn’t nourish their spirit, but fed their flesh,” she said.

Well, at least her mother has become more accepting of Perry’s lifestyle!

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Move over, rehab. Courtney Love has credited an unlikely man with keeping her clean: Orlando Bloom.

Love told “Access Hollywood” that Bloom introduced her to the Buddhist lifestyle that finally changed her ways.

“We chant every day,” Love said. “The 12-step programme demands that you have a spiritual practice that you do daily.

“I don’t mind talking about it because it has changed my entire life, changed everything – restructured my body, restructured my physicality. Truly I can, not all the time, but I can take joy at really shitty situations.”

True to her name, Love said she loves Bloom for his influence, and that he “doesn’t mind being outed as a Buddhist.”

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