Katy Perry teamed up with domestic violence activist and survivor Brooke Axtell for her 2015 Grammys performance. Introduced by President Obama, Brooke Axtell introduced herself as a survivor of domestic abuse. She says she was bound to her attacker by a need to heal him. When he threatened to kill her, she escaped the relationship. Her mother convinced her to get help. After a powerful speech, Katy Perry appeared like an angel, completed covered in a white dress with an attached white cape to sing her song “By The Grace Of God.” Perry reportedly wrote the song when she had contemplated suicide.
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