Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom had a temporary split in 2017 because he was not interested in “playing games” and she needed to “work” on herself.
The couple met at a Golden Globes afterparty in 2016, but parted the following year after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor attended The Hoffman Process, a week-long retreat that left the duo yearning for different things.
Katy told Alex Cooper on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast: “We 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.”
Katy Perry opened up about her brief split from Orlando Bloom in 2017 during Wednesday’s episode of “Call Her Daddy.”callherdaddy/Instagram
The singer, who started dating the actor in 2016, explained Bloom was serious about their relationship while she wasn’t.callherdaddy/Instagram
Recalling Orlando’s return from the retreat, she added: “He went there, and he wasn’t playing that cat-mouse game anymore.
“And I was like, ‘This is boring. I’m moving on.’ I was so used to this push-pull. Because once you have it. I was playing games.”
Orlando and Katy then spent a “really tough year” apart before the “Woman’s World” singer decided to go on the retreat too, and it completely changed her life.
“We weren’t really in it from day one,” she told host Alex Cooper.katyperry/Instagram
“He was because he had just done a huge time of celibacy and he had set intentions. I was fresh out of a relationship,” Perry continued.katyperry/Instagram
She said: “I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated, and I got the tools.
“We spoke the same language.
“I would be dead without it. I would not be on this planet without that process and meditation. 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 centre, but actually that core was created from outside validation.
The singer added that she wasn’t ready to settle down yet.KATY PERRY / Instagram
The mom of one explained that Bloom’s perspective on their relationship changed when he went to a week-long retreat called The Hoffman Process.orlandobloom/Instagram
“It just helped me rewire what I think about myself, and it helped me connect my head to my heart.”
When the pair, who have a four-year-old daughter Daisy together, reconciled, Katy, 39, revealed “the worst” of herself to the 47-year-old actor, whose unwavering support convinced her he was the ideal guy for her.
She said, “I showed him the worst of me. I said, ‘Here’s the next exam. I’m going to show you the craziest b—- you’ve ever seen,” and he was like, ‘I’m not shook. And I said, ‘You’re my 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 daddy.’ If you’re not shaken by this, we’re going the distance.
And today, Katy and Orlando — who is also the father of 13-year-old Flynn from his marriage to Miranda Kerr — work together to keep their relationship strong, including through couple’s therapy.
“And I was like, ‘This is boring. I’m moving on.’ I was so used to this push-pull. Because once you have it. I was playing games,” Perry continued.orlandobloom/Instagram
The two then spent a year apart.Getty Images for Variety
She stated, “We want to improve, and I believe the reason we’re in this relationship is to become better beings so that we can nurture this lovely human being.
“It’s been various layers. The more we labor, the more we discover the next level. And occasionally we get stuck and say, ‘OK, let’s go in and do the work, but this is going to be annoying, and I don’t want to do it. We do not have the time. I am exhausted.
“But we’ll do it. And we discover the next level. That is why we are continuing our friendship.
