Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom: A Timeline of Their Relationship

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September 2024

During an appearance on “Call Her Daddy,” Perry told the host Alex Cooper why she and Bloom broke up in 2017.

“We weren’t into it from day one,” the singer admitted. “He was, in a way, because he had just been celibate and he had intentions. I had just ended a relationship and was like, “I can’t do this anymore.” I have to swim in another pond.’

While Perry “still needed to work” on himself, Bloom went on a week-long retreat “to change all (his) bad habits.” When he returned, the duo were not on the same page.

“He went there and then he came back and never played that cat-and-mouse game with me again,” Perry recalls. “And I said, ‘Hmm.’ I’ve gotten so used to this push-pull. … I played games because it was a dopamine hit. That’s what I knew.”

Perry later decided to go on a retreat herself and discovered that she was then “speaking the same language” as Bloom.

“It changed my life, it saved my life,” she said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Perry shared that nothing gets her going quite like Bloom doing chores.

“If I come downstairs and the kitchen is clean and you wash all the dishes and close all the pantry doors, you’d better be prepared for your Mr. to get wet,” she quipped. “That means my love language! I don’t need a red Ferrari … I can buy a red Ferrari. Just cook them! I will suck your d–k! It’s that simple!”