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

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Katy Perry is lighting up like a firework.

Almost a year after splitting from Orlando Bloom, singer Katy Perry and her boyfriend, Justin Trudeau, first appeared together as a couple on the red carpet at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on June 8th.

Before the release of Katy Perry’s concert film, Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour, Perry and the former Canadian prime minister were photographed together. They shared a sweet moment, playfully touching foreheads and laughing while facing each other.

Oh my gosh, you guys, I was watching the videos and it was EVERYTHING! Trudeau was literally right there with Katy Perry the whole time she was meeting fans like us! TopMob News caught it all – he just stayed glued to her side while she signed autographs and everything. It was so sweet
 and honestly, a little bit obsessive, but I’m not judging! I wish it was me getting an autograph with him standing right there!

Although this was Perry and Bloom’s first public appearance together at a big event, they’ve often enjoyed private dates with Trudeau. Perry, who shares 5-year-old daughter Daisy with Bloom, recently posted a photo of herself holding Trudeau’s hand at Coachella.

Although Katy Perry hasn’t said much publicly about her relationship with Justin Trudeau, she’s hinted at it a few times since they were first rumored to be dating in July.

Okay, so things are definitely heating up for me! Just two days after photos surfaced of a really fun, romantic getaway with someone special on my yacht in Santa Barbara, I was on stage in London when a fan actually proposed! It was a funny moment, and honestly, a sweet reflection of how happy I’m feeling right now.

In response, she said, “I wish you’d asked me 48 hours ago.” 

Perry also hinted at her past relationships with Bloom and ex-husband Russell Brand.

She addressed the London crowd, playfully asking, “Is this what you’re like after a long workday and school day?” Then she added with a laugh, “It’s no surprise I keep falling for English men!”

However, in another nod to Trudeau, she added, “But not anymore.”

For a deeper dive at Perry’s dating history through the years, keep reading
 

A video surfaced around 10 years ago showing Katy Perry energetically performing and crowd-surfing at a Relient K concert. This footage dates back to the early 2000s, when she was dating the band’s singer, Matt Thiesen.

In a 2012 interview with Songfacts.com, Thiessen surprisingly mentioned Katy Perry, which led the interviewer to ask if they were friends.

Thiessen said he and his ex-girlfriend dated for about two years, but they’ve remained good friends. He described their current relationship as not super close, but emphasized that she’s a wonderful person.

When Perry was just 21, she began dating Johnny Lewis, who later became known for his role in Sons of Anarchy. However, Lewis was also struggling with serious personal issues. In 2012, his life ended tragically after he killed his 81-year-old landlady and then died in a fall – or possible jump – from a roof.

A person who worked on the show SOA told TopMob News that it was well-known Johnny was going through a difficult time. However, no one anticipated such a sad outcome, and everyone is deeply shocked.

Many people initially thought Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy inspired Katy Perry’s 2010 song “Circle the Drain.” However, after Lewis died, a source revealed to Us Weekly that Perry’s relationship with the actor also influenced the song. It’s about feeling helpless as someone you care about self-destructs, and realizing there’s only so much you can do to help.

According to a source, he was struggling at the time, and she wasn’t able to help him. Many of her songs were influenced by their relationship, including ‘The One That Got Away’ and ‘Circle the Drain,’ which were also about Travis. Despite the difficulties, she looks back on that period of her life fondly, remembering the good times they shared. It’s a sad situation because she ultimately couldn’t help him and didn’t want to get involved in his lifestyle.

Perry and Mika met at a summer party at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2008, and were seen leaving together, but their connection didn’t develop into a long-term relationship.

Katy Perry’s hit song “I Kissed a Girl” launched her into the spotlight in 2008, but around that time, her year-long relationship with Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes was ending. They had first connected when Perry appeared in Gym Class Heroes’ music video, “Cupid’s Chokehold.” McCoy announced their breakup on New Year’s Eve via his blog, using lyrics from Main Source’s “Kickin at the Front Door” to describe their often-turbulent relationship—good times mixed with frequent arguments. (A fitting description, considering her song “Hot n Cold” was released around the same time.)

Katy Perry recently shared with a small audience at the Hotel Cafe that getting over a breakup means moving on, even when it’s hard. She explained that you don’t necessarily want to let go, but you’re forced to, and she emphasized that she has definitely moved on now.

Before Katy Perry’s album Teenage Dream was released in 2010, a song called “Circle the Drain” became public, and many people thought it was about John Mayer. He addressed this in an interview with MTV News, saying he’d heard Taylor Swift had written a song about him or past issues. He added that he was just glad she’d finally written a song with some depth on her album, jokingly saying, “Good job.”

It seems time has helped them move past difficult feelings. In 2012, after Perry’s divorce, McCoy told the London Mirror that Perry had supported him during a very tough period in his life. He acknowledged their relationship hadn’t ended perfectly and he had some regrets, but said they no longer held any resentment towards each other. He affirmed that he would always be there for her, and she understood that.

Rumors started circulating in February 2009 that Katy Perry, recently single, was dating Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte, after they were seen together on Valentine’s Day.

She addressed the rumors online, writing, ‘Seriously, just because two somewhat famous people were sitting near each other doesn’t mean anything happened!’

Shortly after that, Katy Perry reportedly dated Josh Groban, according to Groban himself in a 2013 interview.

According to Tim Jones, the frontman of Truth & Salvage Co., Katy Perry once dated James Valentine, the guitarist from Maroon 5. Jones shared in a 2010 interview with Blast Magazine that Perry also contributed to the lyrics of his band’s song “Old Piano,” which appeared on their 2010 album of the same name.

I was at my friend James Valentine’s house – he’s the guitarist for Maroon 5 – and his girlfriend was asleep. It was late, so I started playing the piano and writing a song. Eventually, she half-woke up, asked what we were doing, hummed a few lines back to me, and then went back to sleep.

As we all know now, this didn’t turn out well.

Russell Brand proposed to Katy Perry during a trip to India only a few months after they first met in 2009. They later returned to India to get married on October 23, 2010, having a traditional Hindu ceremony held within a tiger park.

In December 2011, Russell Brand texted Katy Perry to let her know he wanted a divorce. Perry openly shared her emotional struggles during their split in the documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me. Later, in 2013, she expressed her pain through the songs “Ghost” and “By the Grace of God” on her album Prism.

Russell Brand discussed his marriage to Katy Perry on his podcast in April 2025, saying she’s a very famous and unique person, but not strange or eccentric. He also stated that, as far as he knew, she wasn’t involved in any wrongdoing.

He explained that the reasons for the marriage ending were typical issues that lead to divorce, and he holds her in high regard.

Following her divorce, Perry was seen spending time with 22-year-old French model Baptiste Giabiconi in Europe in March 2012.

After her divorce, Katy Perry was seen showing interest in Florence + the Machine guitarist Robert Ackroyd at the Coachella music festival in April 2012.

She told USA Today that summer she wasn’t interested in a relationship, describing her brief connection with Ackroyd as too casual to even be called a relationship. She explained that while she sometimes enjoys meeting and flirting with people, she wasn’t ready for anything serious.

I feel like I’ve been given a fresh start, a chance to build a better life. But right now, I’m not interested in a relationship. I’m focused on healing and getting myself healthy, and I’m making progress. That doesn’t mean I’ve given up on love altogether, though.

Actually, she hadn’t given up on love at all! Katy Perry quickly fell for John Mayer, and their relationship was an intense, on-again, off-again experience that lasted for about four years.

She wrote “Unconditionally” after their March 2013 breakup. 

He ended things, and that really woke me up,” she shared with Elle U.K. “It made me realize how easily I could lose someone I loved and that I needed to address some personal issues – things I think many women struggle with. I found I could be strong in some areas of my life, but very passive in others. In relationships, it was hard for me to voice my needs and establish healthy boundaries, mostly because I was afraid of losing the person I cared about.

Oh my gosh, when GQ finally talked to her at the end of 2013, they were back together! She sounded so happy, saying things were going wonderfully with this amazing guy and that she wasn’t in any hurry at all. It was just… perfect. I was so thrilled for her!

Perry and Robert Pattinson were briefly rumored to be dating in 2013, shortly after Perry split from John Mayer. However, they were actually just friends and had met through a mutual acquaintance, Kristen Stewart.

In an interview with Elle UK, Perry explained they texted Kristen, saying, ‘I know you’ve seen everything that’s been going around, but you know I would never intentionally disrespect you. That’s just not who I am.’ They added that they were simply trying to be friendly with someone, but acknowledged it was awkward given the attention on their body.

Well, who hasn’t been linked to Jared Leto after sitting next to him?

Following her second split from Mayer in 2013, Perry and Leto reportedly connected at Coachella, where Leto was said to be trying to get her attention and possibly go on a date.

As a huge fan, I always found the Perry and Diplo situation so interesting! While they never officially said they were dating, they were definitely spending a lot of time together after her split from John Mayer in 2014. But things got really messy when Diplo – Thomas Pentz, to give him his real name – made that really insensitive comment on Twitter about Taylor Swift. It seriously upset a lot of us Swifties, especially considering their history! It just added another layer to the whole drama.

He and Swift seemingly made up a few months later at the Grammys.

Mayer just kept coming around, until they finally seemed to part ways for good in 2015.

Some people thought several songs on Katy Perry’s 2017 album, Witness, like the title track and “Miss You More,” sounded similar to the style of John Mayer.

Also, Mayer had recently released the song “Still Feel Like Your Man” in April, and he admitted it was about Perry, meaning old feelings clearly hadn’t faded.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom connected at an after-party following the 2016 Golden Globes, and their relationship quickly blossomed. They traveled the world together, visiting places like Hawaii, Italy, and even the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

By early 2017, their intense relationship had naturally ended. Representatives for both parties described the breakup as a mutual decision to create healthy space, which was a much more positive approach than a messy, public split.

I was so shocked to hear that Katy and her partner have decided to separate! A friend close to the situation told me it wasn’t one big thing, but a series of things that built up over the last few months. The good news, though, is they still really care about each other, and a reconciliation isn’t off the table – they just need some time apart to figure things out. I’m hoping they can work it out, honestly!

After taking some time apart, they rekindled their romance. In 2019, Perry announced her engagement with a picture of her ring and the caption, “Full bloom.”

The couple had a daughter, Daisy Dove, in 2020. They announced their split in July 2025, with representatives stating they had been gradually transitioning to a coparenting relationship for several months.

In July 2025, singer Katy Perry was seen with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, several months after she and Orlando Bloom announced their separation.

After being seen together on a romantic getaway in California eight months earlier, the couple officially appeared as a pair on the red carpet at the Tribeca Festival in New York City in June 2026.

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2026-06-09 05:19