Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's wedding cancelled again to make way for birth of daughter
EXCLUSIVE: The couple wanted to marry last winter but that was pushed back to this summer in Japan - Then Covid-19 forced another delay
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s wedding plans have hit another bump – this time in the shape of their unborn daughter.
The couple wanted to marry last winter but that was pushed back to this summer in Japan.
Then Covid-19 forced another delay.
Heavily pregnant singer Katy, 35, seems philosophical about when she ties the knot with Lord of the Rings actor Orlando, 43.
She said: “You can’t plan anymore in 2020 because those plans are always cancelled. We just want to deliver a healthy child. Everyone has to take life one week at a time right now.”
Katy, due next month, is happy to show off her growing bump but admitted to US Radio that sleeping next to chiselled Orlando is not easy.
She said: “He’s so hot. He’s got a six-pack. I literally look like a square, I look like Shrek.
“Large Marge in charge. Aren’t partners supposed to have that sympathy pound-gain thing?
“Not him, he ages backwards. I think it’s because he gets up at 7am and chants.”
While Katy may envy Orlando’s lean look, she hugely values his calming influence on her life, and even did so when they split for a year in 2017.
She described him as her Buddha, who helped her battle suicidal thoughts and depression following their break-up.
Katy said: “It was more than I’d ever faced. I’d had bouts of depression before. I’d been able to avoid falling into the really dark depression by making music.
“It’s like all these things you do to distract – you eat, you work you get a new boyfriend, you shop.”
She also revealed her career-defining happy hits, including Teenage Dream, Firework and Dark Horse, gave her public validation but had been written while she was “in the worst place of my life”.
Katy said sage-like Orlando is the “only one who can handle” her tricky mental health issues, adding: “I showed him all of it and I still test him. And he still shows up and he is still not fazed by it. He’s perfect.”
Orlando even stayed loyal to Katy despite their split. She said: “Every day we were still in contact, so I got help.”
The singer went into therapy, as he had done a year earlier. She said: “I was always hesitant because he came back such like a sage, a Buddha.
“He was just more evolved and I was like, ‘I’m so far behind you spiritually’.
“I was able to do the work because mentally I was more stable and then I was able to come off the medication, which was great.
“It was an anti-depressant but there are amazing tools that you can access.
“For instance, transcendental meditation, which I’ve been doing for 10 years.
“That in itself is a mind cleaner. It’s an incredible tool to use.”