Katy Perry says her mental health was in a very bad place in 2017.
The “Daisies” singer said during an interview on CBCListen’s Q With Tom Power that her breakup with Orlando Bloom that year, as well as disappointing album sales for Witness, had a “seismic” effect that “literally broke me in half.” During that period, she experienced suicidal thoughts.
“I lost my smile,” Perry said. “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.”
Perry explained that her career was “on this trajectory [of] always going up, up, up, up, up, up, up,” and then she had “the smallest shift,” after criticism of Witness. “It wasn’t that huge from an outside perspective, but to me it was seismic … I had given so much out, and it literally broke me in half,” she shared.
She explained of that period, “I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby daddy-to-be,” Perry said of Bloom. “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. So I just crashed.”
(Excerpt) Read more in: Yahoo Entertainment