Katy Perry reveals reason behind brief split from fiancé Orlando Bloom
Katy Perry looked back on her year-long split with her fiancé Orlando Bloom as she revealed what led to it and how it made their relationship stronger.
In the Sept. 4 episode of the Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper podcast, the Fireworks singer recalled that they "weren't really in it from day one."
"He was because he had just done a huge time of celibacy, and he had set intentions. I was fresh out of a relationship, and I was like, 'I can't do this anymore. I need to swim in a different pond, but I had to do a lot real work,'" she explained.
According to the singer-songwriter, they both had to focus on improving themselves for a while from January 2016 to March 2017. Bloom opted for The Hoffman Process, which is a week-long retreat for personal growth. It helps participants "become conscious of and disconnected from negative patterns of thought and behavior on emotional, intellectual, and physical levels in order to make significant positive changes in [their lives] on a spiritual level."
"He went there, and he wasn't playing that cat-mouse game anymore," Perry recalled. "And I was like, 'This is boring. I'm moving on.' I was so used to this push-pull. I was playing games."
Perry later on decided to attend the same retreat. "I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated, and I got the tools," she recalled, adding that they "spoke the same language."
"I would be dead without it," she said, referring to the process. "Because the noise got so large. When Witness came out and things started to shift, and I thought I really loved myself. I thought I really had that center, but actually that core was created from outside validation. It just helped me rewire what I think about myself, and it helped me connect my head to my heart."
Perry said she and Bloom go to therapy from time to time as a couple.
"The more we do the work, the more we find the next level. And sometimes we get stuck, and we're like, 'OK, let's go in to do the work and this is going to be annoying, and I don't want to do it. We don't have the time. I'm tired.' But we're gonna do it," she said. "And then we find the next level. That's why we're continuing in the relationship."
Perry and Bloom started dating in 2016. After their brief split in 2017, they reunited the following year and got engaged in 2019. They now share a 4-year-old child named Daisy.
The two have yet to tie the knot.