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Travis McCoy is adamant in trying to save beau Katy Perry's face after she landed it on a Quinceañera cake, kissed the floor, and slid all over the stage at MTV’s Latin American VMAs held last Thursday.

At the end of Perry’s performance, she belly-flopped into a giant birthday cake, got covered in cake stuff and icing, went up to the nearest band member, slipped on the floor, and went on an endless sliding spree onstage that the show’s crew had to cut the scene off since it appeared Perry was going to crawl to get out the stage. Fortunately for her, band members took pity on her for making such an a-- of herself in front of Latin audience and attempted to help her up.

Now boyfriend McCoy claims it was all part of his zany lover’s act.

"She did it on purpose. She hit me right after the performance (and said), 'Baby, you gotta see the performance! You gotta see the performance!' and I watched it. And I was like, 'Baby, did you fall?' and she's like, 'I did it on purpose.'" And now her lawyer is up in arms. Slip and fall case now out the door.

McCoy tells MTV News, "It was all planned. I think she murdered it, man...She's a step above, a step ahead, you know? And I've always backed her."

Did it on purpose. Yeah right. I had to watch the video over and over and over and over again just to see that part – after the belly-flop – where she slipped all over the stage (mucking it along the way) ON PURPOSE. I’m sure the band members were in on it, too.