Orlando Bloom Calls Parts Of Relationship With Katy Perry ‘Really Challenging,’ But Feels ‘Blessed’ To Have Found Her

Orlando Bloom recently talked about his relationship with fiancé Katy Perry, calling aspects of it “really, really, really challenging,” but saying he feels “blessed” that the two found each other.

The 46-year-old actor opened up with Flaunt magazine about his romance with the “Fireworks” hitmaker and said that being in very different careers can be “challenging.”

“We’re in two very different pools,” Bloom shared with the outlet. “Her pool is not a pool that I necessarily understand, and I think my pool is not a pool that she necessarily understands. Sometimes things are really, really, really, challenging. I won’t lie.”

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“We definitely battle with our emotions and creativity, ” he added. “But I think we’re both aware of how blessed we are to have uniquely connected in the way that we did at the time that we did, and there’s definitely never a dull moment.”

Perry and Bloom made headlines when the couple announced they were engaged in 2019 after three years together. The following year, the pandemic sidelined the “Dark Horse” hitmaker’s plans to tie the knot in Japan, Page Six noted.

“It was very sweet,” Perry recounted on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” later. “It was Valentine’s Day … we went to dinner and I thought we were going to go see some art after dinner but we pulled up to a helicopter.”

“We landed on a rooftop [in Los Angeles] — my whole family was there, and all my friends,” she added. “He did so well.”

In August 2020, the couple welcomed their first child together, a daughter, Daisy Dove.

Bloom also shared in the Flaunt interview that one of the challenges the couple faces is distance, like his European shooting schedule for “Carnival Row,” along with his unscripted adventure show for Peacock, E! News noted. In February, Perry returned to Las Vegas for her residency show, Katy Perry: PLAY, the outlet noted.

Bloom was previously married to model Miranda Kerr from 2010-2013, and the pair share a son. Perry and Russell Brand tied the knot in 2010 and divorced two years later.

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‘My Eyes Sting And My Head Is Throbbing’: Daily Wire Team Details Experiences At Ground Zero Of Ohio Train Crash

Staff members from The Daily Wire are reporting worrisome health symptoms after they traveled to the site of the train derailment and chemical fallout in East Palestine, Ohio.

Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the derailment and started a controlled burn of industrial chemicals on the vehicle to decrease the risk of an explosion, which could have sent shrapnel throughout the small town. Vinyl chloride, a carcinogen used to manufacture PVC, was emitted from five train cars last week in the form of massive plumes of dark smoke visible throughout eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

Carter Andrews, a producer with The Daily Wire, remarked in a social media post that the team visited the derailment site and was forced to leave after workers called the police twice. “The worst part about the wreck site was the horrible smell,” he recounted. “The chemically, stinging odor was so strong my eyes started watering. It lingered all throughout town.”

The team then visited a nearby convenience store to buy heavy-duty face masks. “At this point, we had sore throats, headaches, and nausea,” he added.

Workers attempt to clean up chemical residue from the train derailment (Photo: The Daily Wire)

An aerial view of the derailment captured by a drone (Photo: The Daily Wire)

Despite multiple state and federal agencies insisting that the air and water supplies were not affected by the train derailment, residents and first responders have likewise noted a lingering smell in the air, an oily chemical sheen in local creeks and rivers, sudden deaths among wildlife and livestock, and worrisome health impacts such as sore throats and headaches. “Residents are experiencing the same symptoms,” Andrews confirmed.

DJ Yokley, a business owner in East Palestine interviewed by the team from The Daily Wire, noted that many of his neighbors depend upon their livestock for their incomes. “This is a farm town, and there’s a lot of people whose livelihood depends on those animals that they sell for whatever reason. And if they’re tainted in any way, they’re done,” he said. “We were living the American dream that we worked so hard for, and now we’re living the American nightmare.”

Artificial barriers near the site of the derailment attempt to control the flow of chemical sludge (Photo: The Daily Wire)

Polluted water from a ditch next to the site of the train derailment (Photo: The Daily Wire)

Residents have meanwhile struggled to garner answers from state and federal officials, as well as Norfolk Southern, the rail company at the center of the incident. Though citizens were promised a town hall meeting on Wednesday, officials changed the event to an informational session with representatives from various agencies. Executives from Norfolk Southern pulled out of the event hours before it was scheduled to start.

The Daily Wire team also noted “suspicious activity” half a mile away from the train wreck. “Crews seemed to be using a hose to suck the chemical film off the top of the water flowing through,” Andrews described. “We asked several questions but they refused to even acknowledge us.”

A worker attempts to suck the chemical sheen from the top a creek that ran into downtown East Palestine from the derailment site (Photo: The Daily Wire)

A polluted creek in downtown East Palestine near the derailment site (Photo: The Daily Wire)

“After a long day, my eyes sting and my head is throbbing,” he continued. “I drank a cup of coffee from a local diner that most definitely did not use bottled water.”

Beyond the release of vinyl chloride, Norfolk Southern warned the EPA that a number of other dangerous chemicals were present at the derailment site. One train car containing ethylene glycol monobutyl ether currently has an “unknown status,” according to Norfolk Southern, while the amount of ethylhexyl acrylate in another car is still “pending.” The EPA issued the full list of substances present at the site only after residents were told they could return to their homes.

“We just want answers and they’re not giving them,” reported Yokley. “What’s frustrating is the EPA tells us one thing and then two hours later it’s something different.”