Reality Star Claims Katy Perry Is Denying Her Father-in-Law’s Dying Wish

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Real Housewives of Dallas star Kameron Westcott is claiming that her bedridden father-in-law is succumbing to his Huntington’s disease and is begging Katy Perry to grant the patriarch his dying wish: to spend his “last days peaceful” in the home he lived in before eventually being moved to a memory care facility in Dallas.

Perry, 40, now owns the Montecito, California mansion. But she has been embroiled in a real estate lawsuit with the Westcott family for four years, stemming from whether or not the Bravo star’s terminally ill father-in-law, Carl Westcott, 85, was well enough in 2020 to sell his $15 million, 2.5-acre property to the Hollywood pop star.

The lawsuit postponed Perry’s being able to move into the home with her partner, Orlando Bloom, 48, and their daughter, Daisy, 3. The family moved into a separate Montecito estate in the meantime.

“They are not backing down,” Kameron, 42, told the Daily Mail on Thursday, February 27. “There’s never a negotiation … We want to focus on my father-in-law’s health. We want to be with him and have the last few days peaceful. This is the last thing we want to deal with.”

Through Perry’s manager, the “Firework” singer paid Carl $3,800,000 more than he paid for the estate just a few months prior, according to Robb Report. But the Army veteran and 1-800-Flowers entrepreneur changed his mind days later, saying that his judgement was affected by his powerful back medication protocol. Carl’s attorneys claimed that the contract was “voidable” because of his mental state, but a Los Angeles judge ruled against him.

Eric Rowen, an attorney representing Perry’s manager, told USA Today after the ruling, “The judge found that Mr. Westcott could not prove anything other than he was of perfectly sound mind when he engaged in complex negotiations over several weeks with multiple parties to transact a lucrative sale of the property that netted him a substantial profit.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, Perry was not only handed the title to the mansion in May 2024, but she is now countersuing Carl for $6 million for damages.

“It’s heartbreaking that someone can be so greedy, and it’s heartbreaking that someone has no heart,” Kameron told the Daily Mail. “I hope this never happens to her parents … It breaks your heart, and I just wish that they had a little more compassion on the situation, and I wouldn’t even wish this on her family. I wish it on no one’s family, and I hope no one else has to go through this.”

Perry and Bloom wrote the Westcotts a nice note after purchasing the home — during the COVID-19 pandemic — in which they called the mansion “a respite, one where we will be able to grow together as a family.” Kameron, however, deemed it “bogus.”

“He wanted to be at rest in the place that he loves, and that’s his favorite place,” she said of Carl in the Daily Mail interview. “He wanted to be at peace and have his family around, and we wanted to fill those wishes for him. That’s why we decided to fight for him and protect him.”

Carl currently lives near the Real Housewife in Dallas, at a memory care facility due to dementia.

“We just want to be there for him and make sure he’s comfortable in his final few days or months,” Kameron continued. “Every day is different … It’s extremely awful.”