Katy Perry responds to wild fan theory: ‘Wait’

The pop star has weighed in on a viral internet theory linking her to a very famous cold case murder.

Katy Perry responded to the internet conspiracy theory claiming that she is the child beauty queen who was killed at age six.

The singer, 40, commented on a February 27 Instagram video featuring an AI-generated video of Ramsey transforming into Perry, reports the New York Post. The clip was played to Perry’s song Wide Awake.

“Wait am I,” Perry wrote on the post. Her comment has over 5000 comments and nearly 200 replies.

“This is m Roman Empire,” one fan wrote about Perry acknowledging the conspiracy, which started in 2014.

“LMAO this is amazing,” another fan said.

A third person joked, “OMG mystery solved.”

“Show us ur birth certificate sis,” a different comment read.

Perry has weighed in on the viral conspiracy theory linking her to JonBenét Ramsey. Picture: Instagram

She commented: “wait am I” next to the comparison images. Picture: Instagram

Six-year-old JonBenét was found strangled and bludgeoned to death in the basement of her family’s Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996, hours after she was reported missing.

Police initially focused on JonBenét’s family — father John, mother Patsy and brother Burke — as suspects. But 15 days after the murder, a DNA report seemingly excluded them as culprits. They were formally exonerated in 2008 by the then-district attorney.

There have also been many conspiracies about JonBenéts death — including that Perry is really John and Patsy’s daughter, and that they supposedly faked her death so she could become famous.

The internet theory has some obvious holes, though. The most obvious one is that Perry is 40 years old, while JonBenét would be 35 if she were alive.

The singer’s comment came weeks after the original post went up. Picture: Catherine Powell/Getty Images

The JonBenét case, which remains unsolved, has been the subject of multiple documentaries, including Netflix’s Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, which came out last year.

The documentary covered how the local Boulder, Colorado, police department mishandled the case and how the subsequent media circus still casts a cloud of suspicion on the Ramsey family.

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger, who helmed the Netflix doc, told The Post in November that he’s “firmly convinced that the Ramsey family is innocent”.

“And I am also firmly convinced that this case can be solved, if the Boulder Police Department finally does what it’s supposed to do,” the Oscar-nominated filmmaker added.

JonBenét’s dad, who participated in the doco, met with the new Boulder police chief, Stephen Redfearn, earlier this year to finally solve the mystery of his daughter’s murder.

“The reason I’ve done these media interviews — Netflix, that documentary — is to keep pressure on the police. We’re not going to go away, folks,” he told Fox News Digital.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.