--- title: Katy Perry Surprises Orlando Shooting Victim on Ellen description: Orlando shooting survivor Tony Marrero met Katy Perry during an emotional segment on Thursday's episode of The Ellen Degeneres Show. canonical: https://time.com/4484503/katy-perry-surprises-orlando-shooting-survivor-ellen/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-08T21:09:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:20.844Z og:title: Katy Perry Surprises Orlando Shooting Survivor on Ellen og:description: And offers to pay for his first year of film school og:url: https://time.com/4484503/katy-perry-surprises-orlando-shooting-survivor-ellen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry Surprises Orlando Shooting Survivor on Ellen twitter:description: And offers to pay for his first year of film school twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Katy Perry Tearfully Surprises Orlando Shooting Survivor on _Ellen_ > Sponsored content. 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After Marrero — who was shot four times inside [Pulse nightclub](http://time.com/4370966/orlando-shooting/) — revealed that he had been listening to Perry’s song “Rise” to keep himself motivated since the June attack, DeGeneres invited the _Prism_ artist to join them on stage. Perry and Marrero tearfully embraced before sitting down for an emotional chat that concluded with her offering to pay the tuition for his first year of film school. “I heard that you’re creative — just like me — and you have dreams and you want to go out there and do good and fulfill them,” she said. “And I heard that you want to go to film school, so I personally want to pay for your first year at film school.” Watch the full video below. \[h/t [Uproxx](http://uproxx.com/music/katy-perry-ellen-pays-college-for-orlando-survivor/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4484503/katy-perry-surprises-orlando-shooting-survivor-ellen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4484503/katy-perry-surprises-orlando-shooting-survivor-ellen/"},"headline":"Katy Perry Tearfully Surprises Orlando Shooting Survivor on Ellen","datePublished":"2016-09-08T21:09:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:20.844Z","description":"And offers to pay for his first year of film school","url":"https://time.com/4484503/katy-perry-surprises-orlando-shooting-survivor-ellen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Katy Perry","Ellen Degeneres","TV","The Ellen Show","The Ellen Degeneres Show","Orlando Shooting","orlando nightclub shooting"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4484503/katy-perry-surprises-orlando-shooting-survivor-ellen/","name":"Katy Perry Tearfully Surprises Orlando Shooting Survivor on Ellen"}}]}] ```