Katy Perry is getting candid about one of the darkest times in her life.
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In a frank interview with SiriusXM’s CBC, the singer opened up about hitting rock bottom in 2017 and being in such strife – personally and professionally – that she felt suicidal.
The year, of course, brought with it the commercial underperformance of album ‘Witness’ and, as she’s now revealed, a break-up with current fiancé Orlando Bloom.
She explained:
“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.
I had given so much out, and it literally broke me in half. 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.”
The pregnant star added:
“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.
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.”
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We commend Katy for being so forthcoming with her hardships; it’ll no doubt help others. Perhaps even some of her peers, who run risk of attaching their worth to commercial validation.
Looking forward, it’ll be interesting to see if Perry pours more of her truth into forthcoming fifth album – due in August.
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How the mighty have fallen.
This is a woman who has 9 whole number 1’s. Smh
Gurl, u destroyed ur career urself.
First , u gave ur self that awful blonde hairstyle that made u look like a lesbiàn soccer mum
Then u went on SNL to make a fool of urself, dancing like a clown with migos.
Witness was a bad album
The cover was also bad.
Enjoy ur American idol money and ur washed up movie star husband.
Why are you always angry upset negative ? Just curious lol
GIRLLL YES. BE DRAGGING EVERYONE WHO HAS DONE MORE THAN C******* OR PPL WE DONT CARE ABOUT. BITTER BOT.
BECUZ HIS DADDY LEFT HIS MAMA FO A BLACK GURL AN HAS NEVER KNOWN FAMILY OUTSIDE DA GROUP OF PIGEONS THAT LIVE ON HIS PÎŚŚŸ MATRESS UNDER DAT BRIDGE WITH HIM 💯👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾
Such a weak woman. What about those who struggle everyday and don’t even think about s****** ?
Pathetic.
GIRL EXACTLY ALL CUZ SHE CHOSE TO F UP HER CAREER WIT A TERRIBLE ALBUM N A HORRIBLE NEW LOOK.
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“She should have killed herself”
Like, who in their right mind casually says something like this.
May I remind you that we live in a karmic system. All the energy you put out is only going to come back to you.
But go off..
I want to apologise for my comment
It was too harsh and mean spirited.
Pls let’s be compassionate with one another.
Yes, katy is white, rich and privileged but she is still human and deserves love
Stay bless.
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“Struggle” is subjective.
You guys know it’s okay to just keep your opinion to yourselves sometimes right?
Why and how was this comment necessary?
We should feel bad for a rich multi millionaire? NAH.
She is not getting any sympathy from me.
I will save my sympathy for people who are hungry, poor, homeless, abused etc not a stupid rich white woman.
Katy is saying all this cause her new single is tanking.
We love to see it
She hasn’t comes to term with the fact that her time is up. She has expired.
There is a shelf life for pop stars and katy has pasted that shelf life.
@clarkson, where’s your sympathy for Normani? U claimed to be black but hater her. Smh
The comments on here are disgusting. Anyone is subject to depression no matter how rich. Mental health does not discriminate.
I completely agree but there is a time when you have to think outside your confort zone. S****** stays a choice that we have to respect but not wish for anyone.
I usually disagree with Clarkson but je is alright about the white privileged shat that Katy is. If she thinks about s****** just because of what she been trough then she is the weakest piece of shaat ever.
This is a really good way to fight depression. I work in psychiatry hospital so I am dealing with mental illness everyday.
Y’ALL ARE WEAK FO ASSUMING U KNO ENOUGH BOUT SOMEONE ELSES LIFE 2DETERMINE IF THEY R JUSTIFIED 2HAVE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. LIKE GTFOH WITH DAT GOD COMPLEX. LOSERS 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
She might as well call up Tyson Trax to get her career back on trajectory lol. Hasn’t been the same since.
i can’t commend her knowing that she ridiculed britney during her mental breakdown.
Katy Perry had a good 7-8 year run at the top of the charts, Many iconic artists did likewise. But I understand the humiliation of falling from the top — much more severe than having never succeeded at all.
Her discussion of gratefulness is the great takeaway from this article. Not only does gratefulness help combat negative feelings, but that same mental discipline can help her get back on top again in music. She literally needs to work on affirmations and visualizations to that effect. Katy has to figure out what that looks like at this point in her career.
She made fun of Britney’s mental health and breakdown, so I don’t feel bad for Katy. Sorry. It’s sad that she had such a terrible reaction to her album flopping, but we’re out here dying just because were black. So, bye girl.
Use the same energy for your fave normani
No one can judge her or anyone else… if that’s how she felt then I feel sorry for her and it looks like she’s in a better place.
Now, that being said… it’s hard to voice an opinion without sounding judgemental, especially with such a delicate topic.
Let’s just say there are much worse things happening in life… If you consider quitting once you fall down, then I wouldn’t call you out weak… But let’s just say she’s still young and she will face other difficulties, that may be even harder.
Breast & Black hair . Problem solved.
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Ridiculous, next.
It’s Kesha’s fault that Katy’s career has flopped.
Perry stopped working with Dr. Luke because she feared a backlash if she worked with him again. Kesha lost her lawsuit because she lied about Luke assaulting Katy. Katy should visit Kesha and tell her what’s what.
All you had to do was go back to brunette Katherine