While Katy Perry has just scored a legal victories allowing her to kick a disabled veteran out of his home, her mom is volunteering at a local charity to feed and the nation’s warriors!
Big-hearted Mary Hudson spends one day a week packing up meals and other necessities for the homeless and local veterans at the charity Adam’s Angels.
And now the Pentecostal pastor is running for a new role – on the central committee of her local Republican Party.
‘We want to get the conservatives in there to make a difference,’ Hudson, 75, told DailyMail.com when she was spotted in an oversized straw hat and black mini dress gathering signatures for next year’s vote.
She slammed current members of the Republican Central Committee in Santa Barbara County, California, ‘lackadaisical’.
Hudson had a clipboard in hand as she gathered signatures on Veterans Day to get her on the ballot to run for a spot on the Republican Central Committee of Santa Barbara County.
Katy Perry’s mom Mary Hudson wore a black mini dress to launch her campaign for a spot on the Santa Barbara County Republican Central Committee
‘We want to get the conservatives in there to make a difference,’ Hudson told DailyMail.com as her reason for wanting a place on the Republican Central Committee of Santa Barbara County
Hudson posted this mother and daughter dressing room picture during Katy’s residency at Resorts World Las Vegas
‘Do you live in Montecito?’ she and her realtor pal Adam McKaig could be heard asking people at the tables outside
Hudson spends one day a week packing up meals and other necessities for the homeless and local veterans
Hudson was seen approaching people sitting at tables asking if they were Santa Barbara residents
She was outside Montecito hotspot Pierre LaFond & Co marketplace gathering the signatures with her realtor pal Adam McKaig.
Mary is vice president of Adam’s Angels while her husband Keith is listed as a board member on their website. Keith and Mary are pictured together
‘Do you live in Montecito?’ she and McKaig could be heard asking people at the tables outside.
McKaig’s all volunteer-run organization Adam’s Angels was born out of the disruption the pandemic brought to Santa Barbara.
When shelters and thrift stores closed due to the Covid-19 crisis, locals were unable to donate to help the less fortunate.
Adam’s Angels arranged to go to homes directly and pick up donated items and distribute them at a local park.
They later branched off into assembling bags of non-perishable foods.
Mary is vice president of the charity while her husband Keith is listed as a board member on their website, where it says he mentors men who have fallen on hard times.
Mary and Keith, 76, both Pentecostal Christian pastors, have been active in the Santa Barbara spiritual community for four decades.
Katy Perry, 38, was born and raised in Santa Barbara along with her older sister Angela, 40, and younger brother David, 35.
Last week Katy and Orlando scored a legal victory against a disabled veteran
Carl Westcott had tried to cancel the deal to sell his $15 million Montecito home to Perry and Bloom
She is now raising daughter Daisy, three, with fiancé Orlando Bloom, 46, in Montecito.
They had a very strict religious upbringing – reportedly Mary wouldn’t let them eat Lucky Charms cereal because the word ‘Lucky’ reminded her of Lucifer.
They were also told to refer to deviled eggs as ‘angeled eggs’ and the only music allowed in the house was gospel.
When the effects of the painkillers wore off days later, Westcott claimed he realized what he had signed away and tried to rescind the contract
But Katy was determined to be a singer and dropped out of high school aged 15 to pursue her dream.
When her debut single I Kissed a Girl shot to the top of the pop charts in 2008, Hudson went public with her dislike of her daughter’s new life
‘I felt like I was flattened to the wall,’ she told GodTV. ‘People ask us, “How could you have a daughter like that?”‘
Katy admits she put her parents ‘through hell and back – and back’, but insists she never left religion.
‘My mom has prayed for me my entire life, hoping I’d come back to God. I never left him, I was just a little bit secular, I was more materialistic and more career-driven’.
Now mother and daughter have put asie their differences and are extremely close. Mary’s Facebook page has several pictures of the two of them hugging.
Last week Perry and Bloom won a case to kick disabled veteran Carl Westcott, 84, out of his home in Santa Barbara.
Westcott signed a real estate contract agreeing to sell the 8.9-acre estate to Perry –but later claimed he was under the influence of opioids and painkillers following major back surgery.
Katy Perry’s parents Keith and Mary Hudson are evangelical preachers who have been involved in the Santa Barbara community for four decades
Katy admits she put her parents ‘through hell and back – and back’ as a rebellious chld, but has now mended her relationshiip with them
‘My mom has prayed for me my entire life, hoping I’d come back to God. I never left him, I was just a little bit secular, I was more materialistic and more career-driven’
Westcott, who suffers from Huntington’s Disease, said he only realized what he had signed away when the effects of the painkillers wore off days later and at that point tried to rescind the contract.
But a Los Angeles judge ruled against him last week in the favor of the celebrity couple.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner said: ‘Westcott presented no persuasive evidence that he lacked capacity into a real estate contract.’
Perry has also demanded millions of dollars in lost rent from Westcott that they could have charged for the eight-bedroom home.
Westcott is a veteran of the US Army 101st Airborne and is known for owning several successful companies, most notably 1-800-Flowers.
This isn’t the first time that Katy has been embroiled in a ‘house stealing’ controversy.
In 2017, DailyMail.com reported that Katy was awarded $5million in damages after winning a lawsuit over a thwarted attempt to purchase a convent sitting on eight acres of property in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
The 89-year-old nun suing Perry and the Archdiocese collapsed and died during a court appearance in 2016.