Orlando Bloom, who has been in a relationship with Katy Perry for eight years and shares daughter Daisy Dove with her, has opened up about the lessons he’s learned and the things he’s had to let go of in their partnership.
In an appearance on the podcast “Armchair Expert” to promote his new Peacock series, “Carnival Row,” Bloom discussed how his relationship with the American Idol judge has changed him.
When asked by host Dax Shepard what he previously feared in relationships and any interpersonal revelations he’s had, Bloom said: “I think I’m constantly learning to let go because anything that I tried to hold on to, whether it’s good or bad, doesn’t serve me… and it doesn’t really serve either of us.”
He explained further: “Because I think when you’re in a deeply loving, committed relationship, you want to control or own or have or you know, even just letting go of ideas of how things should be [is hard.]”
Bloom added: “Or the idea of what intimacy or intimate moments are to you versus them, or how you know, whatever it may be, because everybody, because you’ve chosen that person, you’re on a journey with that person.”
“You know you’re going to learn this lesson. And if you’ve chosen that person, then that’s the person you’re going to learn that lesson with, you know, I mean that’s the opportunity, right.”
Bloom also spoke candidly about growing with Perry and adapting to changes both within themselves and in their relationship.
“I think it’s going to change every day… It’s like every day you choose – I choose you because, also, your life is changing,” he said, noting that he seizes “the opportunity everyday to grow,” and that: “I’ll never choose the past, the easy path, you know, like it’s just not who I am.”
He continued: “In some ways my relationship is the greatest opportunity for my continual growth… and I know we both see it that way. So that’s how we grow.”
“[Katy will] hold me accountable and I’ll do the same,” he also noted. “Sometimes you know, you’ll be confronted by your own self, and I think – trust right – trusting your path, your journey, your faith that this is what’s meant for you and then you know, the universe will take care of the rest.”
Both Perry and little Daisy have brief cameos in “Carnival Row” in which Bloom takes on varying adventures and stunts.
Recently speaking with Entertainment Tonight about the show, and his wife’s opinion of it, he admitted: “Obviously, she’s fully supportive. We fully support one another in all of our ventures. But I don’t think she had quite fully grasped what I would be doing until I came home from work and I was clearly under severe stress.”
