Orlando Bloom Reveals He Was Celibate for 6 Months Before Dating Katy Perry

usmagazine.com:

A self-imposed vow. Orlando Bloom revealed in a new interview that he abstained from sex for six months before meeting his now-fiancée, Katy Perry, who is pregnant with their first child together.“[I] wasn’t happy. [My friend] Laird [Hamilton] said, ‘If you want to be serious about a relationship, go celibate for a few months and figure it out,’” the actor, 43, told The Sunday Times in a profile published on Sunday, March 15. “It takes away the idea of going to a party and thinking, ‘Who am I going to meet?’ I was suddenly like, ‘Oh, I can have a relationship with a woman that is just friends.’”Bloom explained that he “was going to do three months,” but then he started noticing the perks of celibacy.“I was really enjoying the way I was