Orlando Bloom: «I didn’t fall in love with Katy Perry, but with the humble girl Katheryn»

They are famous all over the world, their career is stellar. Yet Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry live a life of “peace” and “normality”, in which love triumphs and the joy of small things shared is appreciated. The actor, 47, spoke about it when interviewed in an episode of the podcast What Now? with Trevor Noah, on his new docuseries Orlando Bloom: To The Edge.

«I think one of the things I fell in love with Katy was… – she hates when I say this, so I have to express myself carefully -, but her music was everywhere, right? She was on all the radio stations, but I wasn’t aware… I fell in love with Katheryn, this girl from Santa Barbara. Daughter of Pentecostal preachers who lived on food stamps,” explained the actor de The Lord of the Rings, talking about the singer’s childhood. «We’re not talking about glamour, about Montecito, but about the side (of Santa Barbara, ed.) that no one knows about».

Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry met in 2016 at a Golden Globes afterparty and they got engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2019. They have a daughter, Daisy Dove, 3 years old (he also has another son, Flynn, 13, with his ex-wife Miranda Kerr). To Trevor Noah, Bloom explained that he and the singer have very clear «our origins, what we worked to do, what we had to do to get to where we are».

It’s still: “I wouldn’t change anything, even when sometimes you want to say: “And now what do we do?”, because we have these two enormous careers and lives. It’s like a universe sometimes.” Bloom added: “But I think I’ll keep coming back to her and holding her hand and saying, ‘We’re building a sandcastle.'” It’s the little moments, like a bike ride, that are the most special for him and Katy Perry, and the singer is a “master” at helping “continue to build those moments.”