Katy Perry said 2025 was one of the hardest years of her life, and pointed to her breakup with Orlando Bloom as part of why. The 41-year-old singer made the remarks in New York on Monday, June 8, 2026, while promoting her new concert film, and said there were days when the split was “really, really hard.”
The comments landed just as Perry was drawing attention ahead of a summer appearance in Oxfordshire, where she was set to be one of the headline acts at the first ever Blenheim Palace festival. She was scheduled to perform there on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, with the event running from Saturday, June 27, 2026, to Saturday, July 4, 2026, alongside names including Michael Bublé, Alanis Morissette and Pete Tong Ibiza Classics.
Perry opened up about the year during a Q&A tied to the New York premiere of her concert film, “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live from Paris.” Asked about the period behind her, she said she had broken up with Bloom in July and described her 40s with a blunt shrug at what used to consume her: “Your 20s are for emotions, your 30s are for sorting them and your 40s are for f****** not caring about them.”
Bloom is the British actor and the father of Perry’s daughter, which has kept the split in the public eye since the breakup. The detail that complicates the cleaner version of her message is that Perry has since begun dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and has said she is “very in love,” a sharp turn from the grief she described around last year’s breakup.
What Perry left unsaid matters as much as what she put on the record. She made clear that 2025 was hard, and that the breakup was part of that, but she did not spell out what else made the year so difficult. For now, the answer is only partial: she is moving toward a busy summer stage, and she is doing it while publicly separating one painful chapter from the next.
