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Katy Perry is a hugely successful singer with a baby on the way with fiancé Orlando Bloom. However, the singer will be the first one to tell you that her life isn’t perfect, and she made a point of doing just that during a recent interview with SiriusXM’s CBC Radio One.
In it, the 35-year-old opened up about a more difficult time in her life following her temporary split from Bloom in 2017.
Keep reading for what she had to say.
In the interview, Perry explains how hard the break up was for her at the time. She said, "I lost my smile. I don't know if my smile was ever fully, authentically mine but I was riding on the high of a smile for a long time. Which was the validation, love and admiration from the outside world... and then that shifted."
However, when she stopped feeling that validation from the outside world, she experienced a major change in her perspective, bringing her to a low point.
The singer told Radio One, "My career was on this trajectory when it was going up, up and up, and then I had the smallest shift, not that huge from an outside perspective. But for me it was seismic."
She continued, "I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby-daddy-to-be, and then I was excited about flying high off the next record and the record didn't get me high anymore. The validation didn't get me high, and so I just crashed."
Despite this difficult time, which Perry described as something that "literally broke [her] in half," she was able to come out of it stronger than ever.
She explained, "It was so important for me to be broken so that I could find my wholeness in a whole different way. And be more dimensional than just living my life like a thirsty pop star all the time."
What helped her through this hard time? Gratitude.
Perry explained, "Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life, because if I didn't find that, I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped."
She continued, "But I found the ways to be grateful. If it gets really, really hard I walk around and say, 'I am grateful, I am grateful' even though I am in a s--t mood."
