Katy Perry Calls Boyfriend Justin Trudeau "Love of My Life"

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Make Their Red Carpet Debut as a Couple at Tribeca Festival

Katy Perry never needs to worry about the one that got away again.

And that’s because she is the happiest she’s ever been with boyfriend Justin Trudeau, whom she began dating publicly in summer 2025.

“I am very in love,” she said during the NYC premiere of her concert film Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour June 8, where she and Trudeau also made their red carpet debut, adding of the project, “Actually that show was after I met the love of my life, and so I felt very anchored by that.”

She continued, “Because I'm a little bit like a rainbow kite. I fly super high and like, you know, touch the veil, cosmos, and sometimes I need to be anchored. So, to have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.”

In fact, the 41-year-old—who was previously married to Russell Brand and shares 5-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with ex-fiancé Orlando Bloom—is grateful for her current chapter with the former Canadian Prime Minister.

“Every day is a fantastic journey, and every day is a chance to evolve,” she reflected, “and to be a better person and do the right thing and to be a model for your community, for your family, for your world.”

In fact, these days, she noted, “I feel like a more grounded person in so many aspects of my life.”

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But this new feeling of serenity was hard won, with Perry calling 2025, which saw her and Bloom’s breakup in June, “one of the hardest” years of her life.

“I went through a f--k ton, and there were days that were really, really, really, really hard,” she said. “And I just kept going ‘cause I made a promise to my fans. I made a promise to my daughter. I made a promise to myself. And I got through it.”

She continued, “I walked through the fire because everybody has to walk through their own fire, and if you're walking through hell, you keep going because on the other side of hell is definitely heaven.”

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As for how Perry was able to navigate her emotionally tumultuous year, the Teenage Dream artist saif there’s a lot of wisdom that comes with age.

“I'm different now,” she explained. “Your 20s are for emotions. Your 30s are for sorting them, and your 40s are for f--king not caring about those emotions and turning them into gasoline—finally transmuting all those emotions into a creative something.”

As she put it, “We're all human here and it doesn't matter. It's like sadness doesn't discriminate, grief does not discriminate, pain does not discriminate—everybody is subjected to it in their own ways.”

For more insight into Perry’s romantic history that led her to Trudeau, read on.

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