Katy Perry opened a breakup from Orlando Bloom they took some time apart after a year together while they're currently engaged and proud parents to daughter Daisy Dove Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's relationship hasn't been easy for either party involved and while the Duos meet cute at the 2016 Golden Globe awards involving an In-N-Out Burger maybe the start of a modern-day fairy tale Perry opened up about taking time apart a year after they started dating during an appearance on Alex Cooper's podcast call her daddy Harry noted that both she and Bloom took time to work on themselves at the Hoffman Institute in California before they were ready to get back together and commit to their relationship we weren't like really in it from day one Carrie shared I mean he was in a way because he had just done a huge time of celibacy and he had set intentions I was fresh out of a relationship and I was just like can't do this anymore I need need to go swim in a I need to go swim in a different Pond but I had yet to do a lot of real work Bloom would go on to spend a week at the Hoffman Institute which Perry described as an intense transformative experience it helps you rewire all the bad habits and rewires your neural pathways through different physical activities she explained there's no medicine or plant medicine it's literally just scientists and therapists that have put together programming that help you to quiet that impostor syndrome and also kind of awaken yourself and find that reborn mode Bloom's time at the Institute and his deep self-reflection led to the couple's time apart in 2017 Perry noted that she'd enjoyed playing games with bloom in their relationship and felt a rush she called it a dopamine hit when she'd toy with his emotions after he wanted to go deeper into their relationship she said she got bored eventually she also spent time at the in The Institute and called it lifechanging I had a really tough year and I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated and then I got the tools and spoke the same language and it changed my life AR said it saved my life I would be dead without it I would not be on this planet without that process and meditation Harry noted that she initiated the reconciliation and that bloom was open to it after she'd put in the work now she explained she sees him as an anchor in her life and he's managed to have her reconsider her Tendencies to control everything and open up when she needs help we all have our strengths and then our opportunities for growth but one of his strengths is when I crumble he can step in and be that anchor that's amazing continued Perry cuz I'm usually just alpha alpha you know I'm like testosterone testosterone I got this I don't need any help but actually I I do need do need help I do need a partner