Katy Perry Boyfriend & Dating History
There wasn’t just one person who got away to Katy Perry— there were plenty. Katy Perry has had such a star-studded dating history, and as we all know those relationships, like her tumultuous marriage to Russell Brand, have affected her stunning lyrical abilities.
The “California Gurls” singer recently opened up on the Call Her Daddy podcast about her past relationships with men and her current one. “We all have our strengths and then our opportunities for growths,” she confessed. “But one of his strengths are when I crumble, he can step in and be that anchor. Because 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 do need help. I do need a partner.”
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Who is Katy Perry’s Boyfriend?
Katy Perry’s fiancé is Orlando Bloom. Take a look back at all her boyfriends from her career.
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Orlando Bloom (2018 – present)
Perry and Bloom first met at a Golden Globes party in January 2016. They started dating a couple months later before their breakup in February 2017. The couple reunited in August 2017 and confirmed that they’re back together a year later in August 2018. The two got engaged in February 2019. “full bloom,” Perry captioned an Instagram post of a photo with a flower-shaped ring. Perry announced her pregnancy in her music video “Never Worn White” in March 2020. Together they share a baby, Daisy born August 26, 2020.
Perry opened up on the Call Her Daddy podcast about their temporary breakup when she got bored of Bloom’s “bad habits,” he “wasn’t playing this cat-mouse game anymore.” She recalled, “I was like, ‘This is boring. I’m moving on.’ I was so used to this push-pull. Because once you have it. I was playing games. It was a dopamine hit.”
She also opened up about her NSFW sex life on the show. “If I come downstairs and the kitchen is clean, and you’ve done it all, and you’ve done all the dishes, and you’ve closed all the pantry doors, you better be ready to get your dick sucked,” she said. To which Bloom responded on Instagram, “I’ve cleaned the whole house.”
Jared Leto (2015)
Shortly after her split with John Mayer, Katy Perry was rumored to be dating Jared Leto.
Diplo (2014)
Katy Perry spent a lot of time with Diplo in 2015 and they sparked dating rumors. However, neither confirmed the relationship.
John Mayer (2012 – 2013, 2015)
John Mayer was in an on-and-off relationship with Katy Perry from 2012 to 2015. During one of their first breakups, Katy recalled to Rolling Stone, “I was madly in love with him. I still am madly in love with him,” she said. She continued, “All I can say about that relationship is that he’s got a beautiful mind. “Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.”
“He pulled away. That was a big hello for me,” she talked about the split with Elle U.K. “I realized I could lose the person I loved and I had to deal with some things, issues I think a lot of women have,” she continues. “You can be strong in one aspect of your life but submissive in another. In relationships, it was hard for me to speak up and set boundaries. I think a lot of that was to do with the fear of loss.”
Russell Brand (2009 – 2012)
Russell Brand and Katy Perry started dating in 2009 and became engaged four months later, when they had a traditional Hindu wedding in India. The marriage lasted 14 months, with Brand infamously ending the relationship through a text on New Year’s Eve. (The exchange was documented in Perry’s documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me.)
Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage. I’ll always adore her and I know we’ll remain friends,” he said in a statement at the time, per People. In a Howard Stern Interview, he talked about the end of the marriage. “She’s young, successful, and dedicated,” he said. “You can’t fully understand it until you do it. I was really into the idea of marriage and having children.”
“I don’t want anything to hurt her. She’s younger than me, she’s a young woman and she’s beautiful and she’s sensitive and I care about her deeply … I don’t want to be too glib. She’ll read it and she’ll be sad and I don’t want that,” Brand added.
In an interview with Vogue in 2013, Perry revealed the grounds of the marriage. “At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they’re like, ‘I can’t handle the equalness.’ He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour. So that was really hurtful, and it was very controlling, which was upsetting,” Perry said at the time.
“I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending, but then I found out the real truth, which I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day. I let go and I was like, ‘This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me.’ So I have moved on from that.”
James Valentine (2009)
Katy Perry reportedly dated Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine. Frontman Tim Jones talked to Blast Magazine in 2010 and revealed Perry’s love life at the time.
“She was dating my friend, James Valentine, who plays guitar in Maroon 5,” Jones said. “We were up at his house one night, and she was asleep. He had a piano there, and it was late. I started playing and working on a song.” At some point, she rolled over, asked what they were up to, sang a few words back to him, and went back to sleep.
Travie McCoy (2006 – 2008)
Katy Perry dated Gym Class Heroes’ Travie McCoy from 2006 to 2008. She made a special appearance in the video for “Cupid’s Chokehold.”
McCoy told London’s Mirror in 2012 after Perry’s divorce with Russell Brand that she was “there for me through my hard times when things were really bad. Life goes on. I have regrets about the way we ended. But there are no grudges any more between us. I’ll always be there for her, she knows that.”
Mika (2007)
Katy Perry sparked dating rumors with British-Lebanese singer Mika in 2007.
Johnny Lewis (2005 – 2006)
Katy Perry dated Sons of Anarchy actor Johnny Lewis from 2005 to 2006. When Lewis died in 2012, a source told Us Weekly that Perry was devastated. “She had to separate from him . . . to get ahead and focus on her career,” the source explains. “He was in trouble then and she couldn’t help him. A lot of her songs were partially inspired by him. I know ‘The One That Got Away’ and ‘Circle the Drain’ are partly about him, as well as Travis [McCoy of Gym Class Heroes]. But she was young and it was a time in her life she cherishes.”
Matt Theissen (2003 – 2005)
Katy Perry dated Relient K lead singer and guitarist Matthew Theissen from 2003 to 2005.
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