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In a recent appearance on the Canadian radio show “Q on CBC,” Katy Perry spoke candidly about her mental health issues.<\/p>\n

The American Idol judge shared that she went through a breakdown in which she considered taking her own life following her 2017 split from Orlando Bloom and poor album sales.<\/p>\n

Perry felt like she had hit rock bottom in her personal and professional life and began “wallowing” in her “own sadness.”<\/p>\n

“I lost my smile,” the pop superstar said. “I don’t know if my smile was ever fully, like, authentically mine, but I was riding on the high of a smile for a long time. Which was the validation, love, and admiration from the outside world, and then that shifted.”<\/p>\n

Eventually, Perry and Bloom reconciled and are now expecting their first child. She expressed that seeing her career decline had a “seismic” impact that “literally broke me in half.”<\/p>\n

“I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby-daddy-to-be, and then I was excited about flying high off the next record, and the record didn’t get me high any more … The validation didn’t get me high, and so I just crashed,” Perry said.<\/p>\n

At her lowest point, Perry turned to the relationship she had with God. She believes gratitude saved her life.<\/p>\n

“It was so important for me to be broken so that I could find my wholeness in a whole different way. And be more dimensional than just living my life like a thirsty pop star all the time,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life because if I didn’t find that I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped, but I found the ways to be grateful.”<\/p>\n

Perry says that her faith helped her recover. After navigating depression and anxiety for years, she now has a different outlook on life.<\/p>\n

“Hope has always been an option for me … because of my relationship with God and something bigger than me. If I’m the only one controlling my destiny of course, it’s going to be, like, I am going to drive it into the ground,” Perry said.<\/p>\n

“My hope is that something bigger than me created me for a purpose and created me for a reason, and that I’m not disposable, and that, you know, every person that’s been created has a purpose,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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