Katy Perry has confessed her religious parents have not always been clean living - her father was a drug dealer, and her mother once dated guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.

The singer was recently forced to admit her mother, an evangelical Christian preacher, was not a fan of her hit track "I Kissed A Girl" because it promotes "sin."

But Perry claims her mother, Mary Hudson, has not always been strait-laced and once left home to travel the world, where she met and dated Hendrix. She says, "He just came up to her in a club and picked her out."

And Perry further claims her father Keith was a drug dealer, according to British newspaper the Sun. She adds, "Dad would have died from one tab too many if he hadn't found God."

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