Katy Perry has admitted she was near suicide during her months-long split from fiancé Orlando Bloom in 2017. “I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby daddy-to-be,” the 35-year-old pop star told CBC Radio of the Hollywood actor. With her career “on this trajectory [of] always going up, up, up, up, up, up, up,” she expected her album released at the time, “Witness,” to leave her “flying high” and help heal the heartache. “But the validation did not get me high, and so I just crashed,” she said. The album went to No. 1 but was met with mixed reviews, which she conceded was just the “smallest shift” in her career path. “It wasn’t that huge maybe from an outside perspective, but for me, it was seismic,” she told host Tom Power. Enlarge Image Katy Perry Instagram “I had given so much out, and it literally like broke me in half.” Finding unspecified ways to feel grateful “probably saved my life,” the “Roar” singer said. “Because if I did not find that, I would have wallowe