Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom end 9-year relationship
The pop star and the actor said their priority would be raising their daughter with ‘love and stability’
Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom have split, multiple media outlets reported on on Thursday.
Outlets including People and USA Today cited a statement that said the pair “have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting” and would continue to be seen in public with their daughter. The statement, attributed to representatives for both stars, said their priority would be raising their daughter with “love, stability, and mutual respect”.
The statement came a week after reports of the couple’s break-up swirled ahead of the wedding of billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos, which Bloom attended alone. Perry has been on a world tour.
Representatives for Perry and Bloom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Perry, 40, and Bloom, 48, have been romantically linked since 2016. The pair split in 2017 but rekindled shortly thereafter, getting engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2019, as Perry revealed during an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.
In 2020, the pair welcomed a daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom. Perry and Bloom got Unicef to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children.