American singer-songwriter Katy Perry seemingly took a nod to her breakup with English actor Orlando Bloom. On November 6, 2025, the 41-year-old artist dropped Bandaids, her first new song since the news surfaced that she and the Pirates of the Caribbean actor had broken up over the summer, ending their nearly decade-long romance. According to USA Today, representatives for Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom confirmed that the pair had gone their separate ways in July after earlier reports suggested that they had ended their engagement a month prior, in June. After the Roar artist glimpsed into her breakup with the 48-year-old actor via her new song, American blogger and columnist Perez Hilton shared his reaction to Perry opening up about the struggles before she released her breakup ballad. On November 10, 2025, the media personality wrote in his blog:“We can’t imagine how tough it would be to write a song like this, much less release it… Oh boy, it’s a tear-jerker.” Meanwhile, Perez Hilton’s comments on Perry’s new single came after she revealed the internal struggle of putting out her latest song into the world in an Instagram post on November 9, 2025. “I struggled for months with the idea of putting this song out… even after all these years it can be scary to be vulnerable… but hopefully the lyrics of this song resonate with someone going through what I have been through and maybe they won’t feel so alone and will find the strength to keep going like I have.” View this post on Instagram Instagram PostNotably, in her post, the singer also thanked her fans for giving “love” to her new song, Bandaids. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s relationship timelineKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (Image via Getty)Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom reportedly began dating in 2016. According to People, the two first met at a Golden Globes afterparty in 2016, which the Teenage Dream singer described:“I met my boyfriend over In-N-Out. We were at the Golden Globes and we weren’t together. So I had my security guard grab 10 In-N-Outs and all of a sudden I see my boyfriend’s hand — he wasn’t even sitting at our table — he just swoops in and he grabs it and I was like, ‘Hey that's my burger!’”While the former couple made their relationship Instagram official in May, they took a break in 2017. A year later, they rekindled their romance and reportedly made their official red carpet debut at the Opera of Monte-Carlo in Monaco.Notably, Orlando Bloom got down on his knees on Valentine's Day in 2019 and proposed to Katy Perry. The singer announced her pregnancy in the music video for her song Never Worn White in March 2020. The pair then welcomed their first child, a daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom, in August 2020. After the pair called off their engagement in July 2025, a representative revealed in a statement to USA Today that the pair will “continue to be seen together as a family”, with their shared priority being “raising their daughter with love, stability, and mutual respect.”“Due to the abundance of recent interest and conversation surrounding Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry's relationship, representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting,” the rep said of the breakup. For the unversed, since splitting with Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry has reportedly moved on to a budding romance with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.