LOS ANGELES / NEW YORK — At SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Friday night, Katy Perry walked out to roughly 70,000 people and performed alongside a 10-year-old Norwegian singer named Tius Luka at the opening ceremony of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the three-country tournament that began with the United States facing Paraguay in Group D. Future, Anitta, Blackpink’s LISA, Rema and Tyla were also on the bill. Perry’s set opened with “Wonder,” the song she and Luka performed together as the first act of the evening. It was, by any measure, a large stage. It was also, in terms of the week she just had, arguably the second-biggest thing Katy Perry did.
Five days before the World Cup, Perry stood on a smaller but more intimate stage — the red carpet outside the OKX Theater in New York City, for the Tribeca Festival world premiere of her concert documentary, Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live from Paris. She arrived in a white halter-neck gown with rose detailing. Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, arrived beside her in a black suit. They held hands. They leaned their foreheads together and laughed. At one point during the screening, they stood up to dance to the closing performance of “Firework.” It was the first time the couple had walked a red carpet together.
“I’m very in love,” Perry told reporters that evening, confirming what had been, since October 2025, an open secret. Romance photographs emerged that month — the two of them on Perry’s yacht off Santa Barbara — but neither had spoken directly about the relationship until the Tribeca premiere made privacy harder to maintain. Perry separated from actor Orlando Bloom in July 2025, ending a nearly decade-long relationship. Trudeau separated from his wife Sophie Grégoire in 2023, after 18 years of marriage.
Perry used the premiere to speak candidly about the period that preceded it. “Last year was probably one of the hardest years of my life,” she said, without specifying what made it difficult. She connected her continued performing to the support of her fanbase: “I’m doing all of this for my fans because they are the ones that have helped me along for all these years, over 18 years.” She also has a daughter, Daisy Dove, with Bloom, who is now four years old.
The film itself covers the Lifetimes Tour, Perry’s most recent global run, which spanned 91 locations. The documentary was shot in Paris in November 2025 and is framed as a concert experience rather than a biographical film — Perry distinguished it explicitly from her 2012 documentary Part of Me. “This is very different than ‘Part of Me.’ That was more of a documentary about my life, and this is really a concert experience at the highest level for the fans,” she said at Tribeca. The production design draws on science-fiction aesthetics, a deliberate departure from the maximalist pop aesthetic of her earlier tours.
Trudeau, for his part, appears to have settled comfortably into the role of famous person’s famous partner. He has been photographed at several of Perry’s shows during the Lifetimes run, and a joint appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026 confirmed that the relationship had moved well past the yacht-and-paparazzi phase. At the Tribeca premiere on June 8, he was described as having sung along to the film’s concert footage throughout the screening.
Perry is now preparing for the summer festival circuit. The tour’s European leg begins June 18 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with more than 20 dates scheduled through the summer. She is at the moment a person who performs at World Cups, premieres documentaries in New York, and is, by her own account, very in love. Last year was hard. This week was something else entirely.
