Katy Perry Opens Up About Past Mental Health Struggles in New Interview: 'I Lost My Smile'

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Katy Perry is getting real about mental health. In a new interview on Friday (June 26), the pop star opened up finding hope after going through some dark times back in 2017. "I lost my smile," the singer said told host Tom Power of Canadian radio show Q on CBC. "I don't know if my smile was ever fully, like, 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." According to Perry, the change was two-fold, precipitated by a break-up with her now-fiancé Orlando Bloom and the disappointing response to her 2017 LP Witness. "My career was on this trajectory where it was going up-up-up-up-up-up-up, and then I had the smallest