Katy Perry, in December 2008, she apologized to British singer Lily Allen for remarks in which Katy Perry called herself a "skinnier version" of her, saying she meant it as a joke.Lily Allen retaliated and told a British radio station that Katy Perry "happen[ed] to know for a fact that she [Perry] was an American version" of her because their record company needed "to find something controversial and 'kooky'" like Katy Perry.
