Katy Perry has revealed what led to her year-long split from Orlando Bloom.
The singer started dating her fiance in 2016, but the pair split for a year in 2017, before getting engaged in 2019.
"We weren't, like, really in it from day one," the 39-year-old said on the Call Her Daddy podcast. "I mean, he was in a way, 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 just like, 'I can't do this anymore. I need to go swim in a different pond,' but I had yet to do a lot of real work."
Soon after they started dating, Orlando spent some time on a retreat at the Hoffman Institute in California. Katy explained it's designed to "help you rewire all the bad habits and rewire your neural pathways through different physical activities."
When he finished at the retreat, Katy recalled he "wasn't playing this cat-mouse game anymore with me, and I was like, 'This is boring. I'm moving on.'"
She admitted she was "used to the push-pull" of their relationship and enjoyed the "dopamine hit" that came from "playing games" with him. Eventually, she enrolled at the same retreat. "I had a really tough year, and I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated, and then I got the tools and spoke the same language, and it changed my life," said Perry. "It saved my life. I would be dead without it. I would not be on this planet without that process - and meditation."
The pair reconciled in 2018 and had daughter Daisy in 2020. Today, Katy credits Orlando with knowing when she needs help.
"We all have our strengths and then our opportunities for growth. But one of his strengths (is) when I crumble, he can step in and be that anchor. That's amazing because I'm usually just alpha, alpha, you know? I'm like testosterone, testosterone. 'I got this. I don't need any help,' but actually I do need help. I do need a partner."
