Katie Perry and Orlando Bloom split he wasn't interested in playing games and she needed to work on herself the couple first met at a Golden Globes Afterparty in 2016 but split the following year in the aftermath of the Pirates of the Caribbean actor attending a week-long retreat called the Hoffman process which left the pair looking for different things Katie told Alex Cooper on the call her daddy podcast we weren't really in it from day one he was 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 like I can't do this anymore I need to swim in a different Pond but I had to do a lot real work recalling Orlando's return from The Retreat she added he went there and he wasn't playing that cat Mouse game anymore and I was like this is boring I'm moving on I was so used to this pushpull because once have it I was playing games Orlando and Katie then spent a really tough year apart before the Woman's World singer decided to go on the retreat too and it completely changed her life she said I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated and I got the tools we spoke the same language I would be dead without it I would not be on this planet without that process and meditation because the noise got so large when witness came out and things started to shift and I thought I really loved myself I thought I really had that Center but actually that core was created from outside validation it just helped me rewire what I think about myself and it helped me connect my head to my heart when the couple who have four-year-old daughter Daisy together reunited Katie 39 show the worst of herself to the 47 yearold actor and his steadfast support made her realize he was the right man for her she said I showed him the worst of me I was like here's the next test I'm going to show you the craziest bant you've ever seen and he was like I'm not Shook and I was like you're my baby daddy if you're not shook by this then we're going the distance and now Katie and Orlando who is also dad to 13-year-old Flynn from his marriage to and occur work together to keep their relationship strong including by engaging in coup's therapy she said we want to evolve that's I think why we're in our relationship is to become better humans so we can raise this beautiful human being it's been different layers the more we do the work the more we find the next level and sometimes we get stuck and we're like okay let's go in to do the work and this is going to be annoying and I don't want to do it we don't have the time I'm tired but we're going to do it and we find the next level that's why we're continuing in the relationship