Katy Perry Says She ‘Crashed’ After Her 2017 Breakup With Orlando Bloom and Witness Album

glamour.com:

Q on CBC, Katy Perry got very candid about her —specifically during a low point she reached in 2017 after splitting with her now-fiancé, .During the chat, the journalist referenced a quote Perry gave about how making her new album (out later this summer) was about "finding her smile again." She then elaborated on this."I lost my smile," 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 and love and admiration from the outside world.

And then that shifted."That "shift" appears to have happened in 2017, when Perry released her fourth studio album, Witness, which didn't receive the same commercial and critical acclaim as her Teenage Dream (2010).