NEW YORK — Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made their official red carpet debut as a couple on June 8 at the 2026 Tribeca Festival’s world premiere of Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris, a concert film directed by Paul Dugdale that captures Perry’s 91-stop global tour at the Accor Arena in Paris in November 2025. The pair held hands, shared kisses, and stood up together to dance during the film’s closing performance of “Firework” at the OKX Theater in New York.
Perry, speaking with reporters ahead of the screening, was direct about both the relationship and the significance of the moment. “I am very in love,” she said, adding: “To have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.” The red carpet appearance marked the first formal public confirmation of the romance, which first drew attention in July 2025, roughly a year after her split from actor Orlando Bloom and amid the controversy that had followed her April 2025 Blue Origin space flight. “I am very resilient despite the constant curveballs of my life,” Perry told The Hollywood Reporter in its full account of the Katy Perry Tribeca premiere and her relationship with Justin Trudeau, describing the tour film as a document of the promise she made to herself and her fans to keep going through a difficult stretch.
The film draws on footage from 60 cameras positioned across, around, and above the production to create what the Tribeca Festival billed as an immersive cinematic experience, blending powerhouse performances with moments of genuine intimacy. Dugdale, whose previous concert film credits include work with Adele and Beyoncé, brings a stadium-scale perspective to the Paris footage, which spans the tour’s sci-fi-inspired production design in full. The Lifetimes tour supported Perry’s sixth studio album 143 across 91 dates worldwide; according to Variety’s coverage of the 2026 Tribeca Festival film lineup, the film was among the most anticipated music premieres of the festival run. Perry described it as an evolution of the documentary format: “This is really a concert experience for my fans all over the world,” she said, distinguishing it from her 2012 film Part of Me.
The premiere drew considerable attention beyond its music-industry context, with Trudeau — who resigned as Canada’s prime minister in January 2026 following sustained political pressure — attending as Perry’s partner at one of Tribeca’s highest-profile events of the festival run. The couple’s appearance put a capstone on what has been an unusually well-documented transition year for both: Perry navigating a professional and personal reset, Trudeau leaving elected office after nearly a decade as head of government. “I just kept going, because I made a promise to my fans, I made a promise to my daughter, I made a promise to myself and I got through it,” she said, framing the film as a record of that perseverance.
The Katy Perry premiere was among the highest-profile celebrity moments of a musically active Tribeca 2026 — a festival that also hosted the world premiere of Madonna’s Confessions II visual album, featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Julia Garner, and Benedict Cumberbatch, on June 5 at the Beacon Theatre. The week in US music also saw Taylor Swift inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as its youngest-ever female inductee, with Travis Kelce flying directly from Kansas City Chiefs minicamp to attend the New York ceremony.
Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris is set to arrive in cinemas this summer. A theatrical distributor and release date are expected to be confirmed in the coming weeks.
