Katy Perry Opens Up About Tough Year

is breaking her silence on her year from hell as she prepares to return to the charts with an emotionally-charged new single.

During an appearance on Justin Tranter's Unfamous podcast, the embattled pop star admitted that she's 'angry' and 'wrestling with my darkness' following a 'tough year' that saw her professional and personal life implode. 

The 41-year-old is bouncing back from a string of major setbacks, including the end of her nine-year relationship with Orlando Bloom and .

She also became an internet punchline, with people ridiculing everything from through to her tone-deaf journey into space on 's rocket. 

Now Perry is ready to exorcise her demons on new single Watch It Burn, a powerful pop track that sees the singer raging about letting go of the past.

'In Watch It Burn I am wrestling with my darkness,' she explained to Tranter.

'But last year was pretty tough. I have not given myself permission to be angry my whole life over things I should be f***ing angry about,' she continued. 

'What I've done is I've pushed it down, but I should be f***ing angry. I'm allowed to be angry for a f***ing moment!'

Perry then said that she's focused on feeling her emotions so that she can finally move forward.

'Instead of falling into "woe is me", I was just like, let's feel this f***ing pain. Let's feel this pain, let's feel this anger and let's move on – and let's learn from it, also,' she said.

Thankfully, after finding love with the former Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.

Unafraid to flaunt their romance in public, the couple were seen kissing and lying on the grass during a picnic date in Santa Barbara, California, on Saturday. 

The Roar hitmaker had the former politician in her clutches as they nuzzled noses and shared a tender smooch.

Earlier in the day, they picked up lunch in Perry's vintage Moke before heading to a picturesque park to relax and unwind on a checkered blanket. 

It comes just days after the pop star hailed Trudeau as the 'love of my life'.

Perry – – made her red carpet debut with Trudeau at the New York City premiere of the Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour concert film on June 8.

And she couldn't help but gush over their romance and the stability Trudeau has brought to her life. 

'I am very in love. Actually, that show was after I met the love of my life, and so I felt very anchored by that,' Perry told People.

'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.'

The star couldn't be happier with the way her life is now. 

'Every day is a fantastic journey, and every day is a chance to evolve, 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.

'I feel like a more grounded person in so many aspects of my life,' she added.

Perry reflected on how 2025 – the year her engagement to Bloom ended – was 'one of the hardest' periods of her life.

'I went through a f*** ton, and there were days that were really, really, really, really hard,' she recalled.

'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. 

'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.' 

Perry is now with her next single, Watch It Burn.

It comes after a string of flops for the star, who has lost her position as one of pop's biggest forces.

Her last two studio albums, 2020's Smile and 2024's 143, both tanked, with the latter receiving scathing reviews from critics.

She attempted to return to the charts with last year's pop-rock anthem Bandaids, but it flopped too. 

However, Perry has seen many of her old songs surge in streams thanks to viral success on social media apps like TikTok.

Her 2011 single The One That Got Away has become an unexpected mega-hit, racking up over 1.6billion streams on Spotify alone.

Another one of her old songs, the 2013 Prism b-side Legendary Lovers, has also surged in streams.