Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Split: Timeline and Reasons

Few Hollywood love stories have zigzagged quite like the one between Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom — a tale of breakups, reunions, a fairytale engagement, and a daughter, all playing out under the glare of the spotlight. By mid-2025, that on-again, off-again journey reached a quiet end, with the couple announcing their split just days after reports surfaced that the relationship had been unraveling for months.

Relationship started: 2016 ·
Engaged: February 2019 ·
Daughter born: August 2020 ·
Final split announced: July 2025 ·
Age gap: 8 years (Perry 40, Bloom 48)

Eight facts across the couple’s nine-year arc, one pattern: a relationship that survived one major split but couldn’t weather a second.

What happened with Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry?

How did they meet?

• Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom met in early 2016 at a Golden Globes after-party, according to multiple reports, and began dating quietly that year (Los Angeles Times).
• Perry was still in recovery from her 2016 breakup with musician John Mayer, while Bloom had recently split from his partner of three years, the singer-songwriter Katy Perry? No — Bloom had a son with Miranda Kerr, whom he divorced in 2013.

What were the major milestones?

The relationship clocked more than a few rewinds. Here’s a compact timeline of the key moments.

• Early 2016: Couple begins dating (Los Angeles Times).
• March 2017: First split; Perry confirms on social media they’ve gone their separate ways (Los Angeles Times).
• 2018: The couple rekindles their romance, spotted together at events and on vacation (Los Angeles Times).
• February 14, 2019: Bloom proposes on Valentine’s Day with a flower-shaped ring; Perry says yes (Los Angeles Times).
• August 26, 2020: Their daughter Daisy Dove Bloom is born (Cosmopolitan).
• April 2025: The couple reportedly splits, before Perry kicks off her Lifetimes Tour (Los Angeles Times).
• June 26, 2025: News of the split breaks publicly via multiple outlets (Los Angeles Times).
• July 3, 2025: Joint statement confirms the split (Today).
• September 5, 2025: Bloom gives his first interview about the breakup (El País).
• December 30, 2025: The pair reunite for a family outing in London’s West End with Daisy (Cosmopolitan).

Why did Orlando and Katy split?

What did the couple say in their joint statement?

In a statement to Today (the NBC program) on July 3, 2025, the pair said: “This decision is mutual and amicable, and we remain close friends and dedicated co-parents.” It was brief, it was courteous, and it offered no details about why nine years of history had ended.

What did sources report about the reasons?

• A source quoted by People (via the Los Angeles Times) said the relationship had been “pretty much done” for a couple of weeks and had been “breaking down the last couple of months.” The source described the period as “endless rows” and “stressful.”
• Another unnamed source, cited in a Reddit thread that aggregated gossip, claimed both felt their “stars are fading” — though this is a low-confidence, community-sourced claim.
• A YouTube breakdown (low-tier source) suggested that Perry’s poorly received album 143 and the media backlash over her career choices added strain. The same video cited Perry’s 2024 appearance on Call Her Daddy, where she reportedly said the relationship was “not really in it from day one” — but this is secondhand and unverified by Perry’s representatives.

The pattern: official statements and anonymous sources rarely align, and here they tell two different stories about the same end.

Did Orlando Bloom break silence after Katy Perry split?

What did Orlando Bloom say?

Bloom gave his first on-the-record interview about the split in September 2025 during a press tour for his film Peaky Blinders. Speaking to El País (a Spanish daily with a strong English-language edition) and Today, he said: “We’re going to be great. I think we both feel that way. It’s important to show not only each other but also our daughter that we can still be a family.”

When did he speak out?

Bloom’s comments came on September 5, 2025 — roughly two months after the July 3 confirmation. He did not address the “endless rows” reports directly but underscored that co-parenting Daisy was the priority.

The implication: silence can be as revealing as speech, and Bloom’s avoidance of the tense details confirms a gap between public and private narratives.

Are Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom still friends?

Do they co-parent well?

• Both have publicly stated they remain committed to raising Daisy together. A source told Us Weekly (cited by the Los Angeles Times) that the pair were “in touch and coparenting” and planned to continue living in the Montecito area for their daughter’s stability.
• The December 30, 2025, family outing in London — to see Paddington: The Movie on the West End — cemented that the co-parenting arrangement was real, not just a press line (Cosmopolitan).

Have they been seen together since the split?

Yes — but only in the context of parenting. There have been no romantic sightings, no shared vacations as a couple. The reunion in December 2025 was a family event, not a date.

What this means: the public narrative of friendship holds up under scrutiny, even if the romantic chapter is closed.

Who is Orlando Bloom with now?

Is Orlando Bloom dating anyone?

• As of early 2026, no new partner has been publicly confirmed for Bloom. His focus, by his own account, is co-parenting and work — he continues acting projects post-Peaky Blinders.
• Representatives for Bloom have not commented on any new relationship.

What about Katy Perry?

• Similarly, Perry has not announced any new romantic partner. She is currently touring with the Lifetimes Tour, which was underway at the time of the split and continues into 2026.
• No credible reports from tier 1 or tier 2 sources suggest she is in a new relationship.

The implication: both are in a holding pattern — not dating, not rekindling, just focusing on the child and their individual careers. It’s a clean break, if an unusual one for Hollywood.

“We’re going to be great. I think we both feel that way. It’s important to show not only each other but also our daughter that we can still be a family.”

— Orlando Bloom, speaking to El País and Today, September 5, 2025

“This decision is mutual and amicable, and we remain close friends and dedicated co-parents.”

— Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, joint statement to Today, July 3, 2025

For a couple that spent nearly a decade in the public eye, the ending is unexpectedly quiet — no dramatic posts, no messy custody disputes, just two parents showing up for their daughter. For the fans parsing every statement and sighting, the concrete takeaway is this: Perry and Bloom are done as a couple, but they’ve built a working co-parenting alliance that seems to hold. Whether either one steps back into the dating pool in 2026 remains an open question, but for now, the only relationship they’re actively tending is the one with Daisy.

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