Orlando Bloom Was Celibate, Didn’t Masturbate for Months Prior to Meeting Katy Perry

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The premiere of Amazon Original Series "Carnival Row"

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Orlando Bloom is expecting a child with Katy Perry, but before meeting and falling in love with her, he apparently became completely celibate for six months.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star had told his friend Laird Hamilton that he โ€œwasnโ€™t happyโ€ and the latter suggested trying taking a period of celibacy, and it ended up making Orlando better at โ€œrelating to womenโ€ and the โ€œfeminine withinโ€ himself โ€“ though he admitted he doesnโ€™t think itโ€™s a โ€œhealthyโ€ and โ€œadvisableโ€ thing to do.

In an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper, he recalled: โ€œLaird said, โ€˜If you want to be serious about a relationship, go celibate for a few months and figure it out.โ€™

โ€œIt takes away the idea of going to a party and thinking, โ€˜Who am I going to meet?โ€™ I was suddenly, like, โ€˜Oh, I can have a relationship with a woman that is just friends.'โ€

โ€œI was going to do three months [of abstaining], but I was really enjoying the way I was relating to women, and to the feminine within myself. It was insane.โ€

โ€œI donโ€™t think itโ€™s healthy. I donโ€™t think it was advisable. You have to keep it moving down there.โ€

Orlando and Katy dated for 10 months and split briefly, before getting back together in 2017, and on Valentineโ€™s Day 2020 (Feb 14), the British actor popped the question.

The premiere of Amazon Original Series "Carnival Row"
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry arrive for the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon Original Series โ€œCarnival Rowโ€ at the TCL Chinese theatre on August 21, 2019 in Hollywood. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Bloom, who has nine-year-old son Flynn with ex-wife Miranda Kerr, admitted โ€œthe whole family is over the moonโ€ by his and Katyโ€™s pregnancy news.

He told the publication: โ€œThis kind of joy isnโ€™t something you can put into words โ€“ or really wrap your head around.

โ€œObviously, weโ€™ve known for a long time before going public.โ€

โ€œAs you can imagine, itโ€™s such an incredibly precious, private, yet commonplace moment to be sharing with the world.โ€

โ€œThe whole family is over the moon.โ€

Orlando also revealed that his son Flynn told him he and Katy are โ€œthe fun coupleโ€ out of them and his mom Miranda and her Snap Inc. CEO husband Evan Spiegel.

He said: โ€œMy son put it so well. I asked, โ€˜Whatโ€™s it like with Mum and her husband? Howโ€™s it different to us?โ€™ He smiled. โ€˜Youโ€™re the fun couple.'โ€

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