Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Katy Perry, pick up the January
issue of Marie Claire, on newsstands Dec. 17.
Katy Perry gets very candid in
the January issue of Marie Claire, discussing everything from her romance with
John Mayer to her divorce with Russell Brand and her relationship with her
parents. The 29-year-old admits that although her split with Brand was painful,
she's been slowly regaining her confidence now that she's dating her
"fantastic partner," Mayer.
"There were two weeks of my
life after I found out the truth of my marriage where I was like, 'OK. All
right. I can't feel this. This is too intense right now.' I was, like, just
eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it," Perry tells Marie
Claire, adding that Transcendental Meditation was "the best thing I got
out of my previous relationship, because it was introduced to me via my
ex-husband."
Perry began dating Mayer in Aug.
2012, eight months after Brand filed for divorce. The pair have been
on-and-off, but Perry says their bond is stronger than ever these days. (She
calls their relationship "rad" and "mature"). "I took a break from my boyfriend, not
one that I wanted. It was like a splash of cold water to search inward on what
was going on with me. That is what let me to this new awakening, this
realizing, If I don't do some self-love, I'm not going to be able to keep the
love that I want," she explains of breaking it off with Mayer earlier this
year. "I still needed to deal with all of my ex-husband stuff. I hadn't.
It's almost like if I kept talking about it, it would seem like I actually
cared about it. I don't."
The "Roar" singer also
reveals that one of the major reasons she and Brand called it quits was because
she wasn't ready to start a family. "I'm definitely not there yet, and I
can't plan that far in advance. When I decide to have a family, I'll just want
to be Mom for a little bit," she explains of having kids. "[Brand]
really wanted me to have children, and I knew I wasn't ready -- I think it was
a way of control. I think it was part of, If I have a kid, then I would have to
sacrifice -- I'd have to be home more. I really wanted to, but I knew I wasn't
ready for it. It wasn't like, 'Hey, let's have a kid because we're in
love."
As for her own family, Perry
admits she and her parents -- who are evangelical preachers -- don't always see
eye-to-eye. "People don't understand that I have a great relationship with
my parents -- like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't
necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with
everything they do. They're at peace with -- they pray for me is what they
do," she tells Marie Claire. "They're fascinated with the idea that
they created someone who has this much attention on her." "My parents
are Republicans, and I'm not. They didn't vote for Obama, but when I was asked
to sing at the inauguration, they were like, 'We can come.' And I was like,
'No, you can't,'" Perry adds. "They understood, but I was like, 'How
dare you?' in a way."
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