Pop star and former American Idol judge Katy Perry is opening up about her struggles with her mental health. Beyond dropping the reality show, Perry has gone through breaking up with Orlando Bloom and backlash from the public over the past year.
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Recently, Perry appeared on The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music. She said she has struggled recently.
She said, "Last year was so hard. It was the worst year and the best year. Because there's two sides to every coin, and I decided to look at it as the best. And like I went to space. I created space for my own life. And then all of a sudden this huge blessing in my life showed up."
Perry suggested that things got so bad that she considered not going on.
She said, "And everything is really changed and real, grounded and settled, and I'm just so glad I decided to stick around for another year because you know if you just keep on living, life can get better. It's wild to look at where I was one year ago exactly. I remember where I was one year ago exactly this year. Last year, June I was in the winter on the Lifetimes tour. I was crying - I was in Adelaide - I had just separated. I had been through a lot of you know, just stuff publicly, privately."
Katy Perry Talks Path Forward
However, Perry said that she is in a much better place now and is thankful for the blessings currently happening in her life.
She explained, "And I was just like, 'holy s**t, this is really intense. Is a person really supposed to feel all this and, or absorb all this?' And then my blessing came and it was wonderful. It was like God didn't take me this far to desert me."
Now, Prry says that she is charting her path forward and focused on her music once again.
She explained, "I basically have to put it out in order to clear the path to whatever comes next. So it's something I wrote last March and I wrote it with Justin Tranter and a couple other people. And I wrote two songs, Band-Aids and Watch It Burn and I was terrified of putting Watch It Burn out."
