Pop star Pink has apologised to Australians for backing a world animal rights campaign against Australia's wool industry, saying she had her facts wrong.
During a December concert in Paris, Pink called on consumers to boycott products made with Australian wool in protest at the "sadistic" practice of mulesing, where farmers cut loose skin from the backsides of sheep to discourage flies.
But ahead of Australian concerts starting in April, Pink, said she had been misinformed.
Pink told Australia's Nine Network television: "I probably could have been a lot more researched, on my own. That's the lesson I'm taking from this," she said.
"My message was, in my mind, boycott animal cruelty - not an entire industry, not Australia, obviously, because it's my favourite country.
Mulesing is unique to Australia where hot and humid weather makes sheep particularly vulnerable to severe fly strike.
The practice is to be phased out by 2010.
