Katy Perry reveals she considered suicide after she split from fiance Orlando Bloom in 2017

The singer suffered a breakdown in 2017 when her record flopped and she temporarily ended her romance with Orlando Bloom.

Katy Perry has revealed she considered suicide following her split with Orlando Bloom in 2017.

The singer said she suffered a breakdown when her record flopped commercially and she temporarily ended her romance with the British actor, The Sun reports.

Perry, 35, recalled hitting rock bottom and told how she almost “jumped” after her album Witness sold less than a tenth of her 2013 release Prism.

Perry, who is now expecting a daughter with Bloom, said it was the first time she had suffered a professional setback.

Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry in 2018. Picture: Valery Hache / AFP

She explained: “My career was on this trajectory when it was going up, up and up and then I had the smallest shift, not that huge from an outside perspective. But for me it was seismic.

“I had given so much out, and it literally broke me in half.

“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.

“But the validation did not make me high, and so I just crashed.”

Perry, whose exes include comedian Russell Brand and singer John Mayer, said her faith helped her recover.

She explained: “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.

“Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life, because if I did not find that I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped.

Katy Perry performs following the ICC Women's T20 Cricket World Cup Final between India and Australia at the MCG in March. Picture: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

“But I found the ways to be grateful. If it gets really, really hard I walk around and say, ‘I am grateful, I am grateful!’; even though I am in a sh***y mood.”

Perry, who is hoping to marry Bloom next year, said she finally feels in a good place after struggling with mental health issues her whole life.

She told radio station SiriusXM CBC: “Hope has always been an option for me, because of my relationship with God and something that is bigger than me.

“Of course if I am the one controlling my destiny I am going to be the one driving it into the ground.

“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 every person that’s been created has a purpose.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission