Katy Perry has opened up about her mental health battle during the ‘worst year of her life’ as she reflected on her split from Orlando Bloom in a new interview.
The Roar hitmaker, 41, called it quits with the actor in June 2025 after nine years together. They got engaged in 2019 and in August 2020 they welcomed their daughter Daisy.
Since their split, Katy has found love with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and gushing over her new man she described him as a ‘blessing from God’.
Appearing on the latest episode of The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music, she confessed: ‘Last year was so hard. It was the worst year and the best year. Because there’s two sides to every coin, and I decided to look at it as the best.
‘And like I went to space. I created space for my own life. And then all of a sudden this huge blessing in my life showed up.’
Hinting at her mental health struggles, she continued: ‘And everything is really changed and real, grounded and settled, and I’m just so glad I decided to stick around for another year because you know if you just keep on living, life can get better.
Katy Perry has revealed her mental health battle during ‘worst year of her life’ amid ‘intense’ split from Orlando Bloom – as she calls new romance with Justin Trudeau a ‘blessing from God’ (pictured during her tour last year)
She said: ‘Last year, June I was in the winter on the Lifetimes tour. I was crying. I was in Adelaide. I had just separated. I had been through a lot of you know, just stuff publicly, privately’ (pictured with Orlando in March 2025)
‘It’s wild to look at where I was one year ago exactly. I remember where I was one year ago exactly this year.
‘Last year, June I was in the winter on the Lifetimes tour. I was crying. I was in Adelaide. I had just separated. I had been through a lot of you know, just stuff publicly, privately.
‘And I was just like, “holy s**t, this is really intense. Is a person really supposed to feel all this and, or absorb all this?”
‘And then my blessing came and it was wonderful. It was like God didn’t take me this far to desert me.’
Katy is now preparing to release her new single Watch It Burn on June 25.
‘I basically have to put it out in order to clear the path to whatever comes next. So it’s something I wrote last March and I wrote it with Justin Tranter and a couple other people.
‘And I wrote two songs, Band-Aids and Watch It Burn and I was terrified of putting Watch It Burn out.
‘They’re so honest and they really tell a lot about my story. I was like, “I’m never putting this out. I’m never putting this out. I’m never putting this out.” And cut to now, like a long while away – I’m putting it out.’
The star continued: ‘And then my blessing came and and it was wonderful. It was like God didn’t take me this far to desert me’ (pictured with Justin in June)
Representatives for Katy and Orlando previously told DailyMail.com at the time that, ‘Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting.
‘They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is – and always will be – raising their daughter with love, stability, and mutual respect.’
A few months later, Bloom broke his silence on the split during an interview on the Today show in September.
‘I’m great, man. I’m so grateful. We have the most beautiful daughter,’ he said while also talking about his film titled The Cut.
‘You know, when you leave everything on the field, like I did in this movie, I feel grateful for all of it. And we’re great. We’re going to be great. It’s nothing but love.’
Katy and Justin made their red carpet debut together at the New York City premiere of the Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour concert film on June 8.
And unafraid to flaunt their romance in public, the couple were seen kissing during a picnic date in Santa Barbara, California, last weekend.
Gushing over their romance and the stability Trudeau has brought to her life, she told People: ‘I am very in love. Actually, that show was after I met the love of my life, and so I felt very anchored by that.
‘Because I’m a little bit like a rainbow kite. I fly super high and like, you know, touch the veil, cosmos, and sometimes I need to be anchored. So, to have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.’
The star couldn’t be happier with the way her life is now.
‘Every day is a fantastic journey, and every day is a chance to evolve, and to be a better person and do the right thing and to be a model for your community, for your family, for your world.
‘I feel like a more grounded person in so many aspects of my life,’ she added.
