Katy Perry reveals year-long split from Orlando Bloom ‘saved her life’: ‘I would be dead without it’

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the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “I mean, he was in a way, because he had just done a huge time of celibacy, and he had set intentions.”“I was fresh out of a relationship, and I was just like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.

I need to go swim in a different pond,’ but I had yet to do a lot of real work,” she added.Not long after the pair started dating, Bloom headed to the Hoffman Institute in California.According to Perry, the facility is designed to “help you rewire all the bad habits and rewire your neural pathways through different physical activities.”After wrapping up his retreat, the “Dark Horse” singer said Bloom, 47, “wasn’t playing this cat-mouse game anymore with me, and I was like, ‘This is boring.

I’m moving on.'”Perry admitted that she was “used to the push-pull” of their relationship that would often result in a “dopamine hit” from “playing games.”Eventually, she followed suit by enrolling at the Hoffman Institute.“I had a really tough year, and I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated, and then I got the tools and spoke the same language, and it changed my life,” she told host Alex Cooper.“It saved my life.

I would be dead without it. I would not be on this planet without that process — and meditation.”The duo went on to welcome daughter Daisy together in 2020.“We all have our strengths and then our opportunities for growth,” she said of the pair’s relationship these days. “But one of his strengths (is) when I crumble, he can step in and be that anchor.”“That’s amazing because I’m usually just alpha, alpha, you know?