Katy Perry Says She Found the “Love of My Life” After One of Her Hardest Periods on Tour—How Justin Trudeau Changed the Picture

Katy Perry was thousands of miles from home in Australia when the weight of the previous months finally seemed to catch up with her. The singer was deep into the 16-month Lifetimes Tour, separated from friends and simultaneously navigating the end of her nearly decade-long relationship with Orlando Bloom. “It was probably the hardest time,” Perry recalled, describing days when she cried and felt painfully far from the people who normally grounded her. Yet she continued walking onto stages night after night while privately confronting the fact that a major chapter of her life was ending. Months earlier, she had told her therapist that despite a life filled with extraordinary experiences, she still longed for what she called an “epic legendary love.” She even kept a handwritten list tucked inside her phone case, its final entry consisting of two words: “True Love.” Looking back now, Perry says something unexpected emerged from that difficult stretch—the relationship she has described as the greatest gift of the tour and Justin Trudeau as “the love of my life.”

Perry’s new chapter followed the end of her nine-year relationship with Bloom, with whom she shares daughter Daisy Dove. Their representatives confirmed in July 2025 that the engagement had ended after the pair had spent months shifting their relationship toward co-parenting, emphasizing their intention to provide Daisy with love, stability and mutual respect. Perry has resisted reducing those nine years to a failure, instead describing relationships as teachers and acknowledging that there were important reasons she remained with Bloom for so long. But she also came to believe she needed to release that relationship before she could move forward. By late July 2025, that forward movement had taken an unexpected form: Perry was spotted dining in Montreal with Trudeau, the former Canadian prime minister, and two days later he attended one of her concerts with his daughter. What initially looked like another closely watched celebrity outing gradually became something more substantial. Trudeau increasingly appeared at her performances—reportedly attending 10 of 20 recent summer shows—and Perry came to value something far less glamorous than his former political title: he knew the words to her songs, showed up consistently and seemed genuinely proud to watch her perform.

Their relationship gradually moved beyond private dinners and concert appearances. Perry and Trudeau stepped out together around her birthday in Paris in October 2025, and by June 2026 they made their red-carpet debut at the Tribeca Festival premiere of Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live From Paris. Perry described Trudeau as “heart-centered” and said his support had felt healing, particularly after the emotional upheaval that preceded their relationship. Their children were also reportedly introduced as the couple considered how to blend two established family lives carefully: Perry has Daisy, while Trudeau has three children. In July 2026, photographs of the couple relaxing with friends on a boat in the South of France attracted another burst of public attention, including unsupported online speculation that Perry might be pregnant based solely on the appearance of her body in a loose blue dress. Nothing in the photographs established a pregnancy, and neither Perry nor Trudeau confirmed one. The more meaningful development was one Perry herself was willing to discuss: after believing an important piece of her emotional life was missing, she now felt she had found it—and it arrived during the same period when she was learning how much she needed to leave behind.