The good news for Katy Perry is that American Idol doesn’t air its auditions live, which means that her wardrobe malfunction could be blocked by a handy American Idol logo.
Lionel Richie finally got her halfway up, and Luke Bryan was able to help her the rest of the way into a vertical position.
She didn’t actually show any unintended skin on primetime, and she was able to laugh off the incident even as she tried to get up.
Unlike past incidents with Janet Jackson and Chrissy Teigen, nobody outside of her immediate vicinity (and the episode editors) actually saw anything.