Katy Perry reveals she considered suicide after split from now-fiancé Orlando Bloom in 2017

Perry and Bloom's break-up came as she experienced career struggles following the release of Witness
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Rachel McGrath29 June 2020
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Katy Perry has revealed that she had suicidal thoughts in 2017, in a candid new interview about her mental health.

The 35-year-old is currently preparing for the release of her new album and getting ready to welcome her first baby with fiancé Orlando Bloom.

However in a new interview, Perry discusses a darker period in 2017, which saw her split from Bloom and suffer a small career setback, as her album Witness failed to achieve the commercial success of her previous efforts.

She told Sirius Xfm: “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.”

Reunited: Bloom and Perry got back together and are now expecting a child
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Stating that the shift “ literally broke me in half,” Perry 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.

“But the validation did not make me high, and so I just crashed.

“Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life, because if I did not find that I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped.

“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 sh***y mood.”

The Firework singer revealed her faith helped her recover.

“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,” she said.

After an initial 10-month relationship, Perry and Bloom parted ways in February 2017. They reunited just over a year later, in April 2018, and Bloom proposed on the following Valentine's Day.

Perry announced her pregnancy in the video for her single, Daisies, in May this year.

For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org.

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