Katy Perry says she considered suicide after split from boyfriend Orlando Bloom

Katy Perry has said that she considered suicide after her brief split from Orlando Bloom, the Pirates of the Caribbean star with whom she is expecting her first child.

In an interview with radio station SiriusXM CBC, the pop princess conceded that she was rendered "broken in half" by fame and a drive for success.

"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," she said.

Katy Perry and her boyfriend Orlando first made their relationship public in 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival.