Katy Perry desperately tried to save her marriage to Russell Brand by flying around the world to see him, only for him to dump her via text a few weeks later.
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him → try → text
The singer was on her California Dreams world tour in 2011 that saw her travel across Europe, Oceania, Asia and the Americas in an epic 124-date show.
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She documented the experience in her show, The Part Of Me, in which she also unintentionally filmed the end of her marriage as Brand struggled with seeing Perry as 'the boss' on her tour.
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This week, Brand was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for rape and sexual assault, prompting moments from Perry's show to go viral.
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One such scene showed Perry desperately trying to squeeze in time to see Brand while in the midst of her mammoth tour.
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While flying to their next country, Perry asked her manager: 'Where's my relationship days?
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Can I see a calendar really quick?' before realising the next day she could jet over to see her husband would leave an 18-day gap.
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As she was asked: 'Isn't he coming to you?'
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Perry responded: 'Well he should, but he's not.
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Katy Perry desperately tried to save her marriage to Russell Brand by flying around the world to see him, only for him to dump her via text a few weeks later
Brand did attend at least one of Perry's shows (pictured backstage) yet it was Perry who flew around the world to spend time with him all while juggling her mammoth tour
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Bradford Cobb then told the cameras: 'Katy is constantly trying to make these little side trips off the tour, when everybody really is supposed to be resting to fly to where Russell is and make it work, make it matter, show that she cares, because she does.
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And with everything else going on in her life and her career just exploding, she is running herself ragged.'
Perry addressed her relentless schedule by explaining: 'Just trying to keep my marriage alive!'
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yet the toll it was taking on her was clear to see.
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During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she was asked how she was keeping it together and her plans for when the tour ended, with Perry responding: 'I'm just gonna sleep for a long time and enjoy my husband.'
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Brand did attend at least one of Perry's shows, with her tour manager seen saying that it had been one of her best to date because she knew he was in the audience.
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Yet friends expressed their concerns over how quickly and hard Perry fell for Brand, noting: 'There was this immediate connection.
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Her career was blowing up and her love life was blowing up and everything was just go, go, go.
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I feel like they fell in love so fast, just like they were magnets.
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Yet the fairy tale didn't last for long, with another scene showing the disconnect between them.
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While getting ready for another show, Perry revealed that Brand had spotted a McDonalds with 1133, their lucky numbers, and was joking they should name their firstborn Ronald.
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Yet Perry explained to the cameras that she was in no position to be thinking about starting a family.
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She later sighed: 'Being in love is the dream and then the reality of making it work with the marriage is not like the movies.
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There's a lot more compromise, a lot more sacrifice or else it just won't work.'
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Manager Bradford Cobb said: 'Katy is constantly trying to make these little side trips off the tour, when everybody really is supposed to be resting to fly to where Russell is and make it work'
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Ultimately, Perry was unable to save her marriage, with Brand asking her for a divorce via text minutes before she was due to perform to thousands in Brazil
Perry's friends then explained that she had hidden a lot of the problems that were going on in their marriage, saying: 'We didn't realise what was going on in her personal life at that time.
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I think Katy shielded most of us from the reality of what was happening.
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It's hard to see the stress, the frustration, the doubt.
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'You could see how difficult it is for two people with crazy busy careers on opposite sides of the world trying to just make it work.
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Yet ultimately, Perry was unable to save her marriage, with Brand asking her for a divorce via text minutes before she was due to perform to thousands in Brazil.
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The film showed Perry being comforted by her team backstage, unable to communicate whether or not the concert would go ahead – it eventually did.
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Perry kept things together to deliver the performance of a lifetime, but couldn't help but shed a tear when she announced her single, The One That Got Away, explaining: 'Sometimes we say forever and it's easier to say than to do.'
Perry broke down in tears in a later interview as she shared: 'In the beginning of me getting into the industry I would hear girls saying "oh no, I don't want to be in a relationship because I don't want to have to choose between being in a relationship and having career."
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'And I thought to myself when I get to know that, when I find that person who's going to be my life partner, I won't ever have to choose because they'll be accepting of me completely for who I am.
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Not me doing whatever I want necessarily but they won't be threatened or have weird motives or whatever they will be accepting of me, the things I love, the ambition, what I aspire to be, what I want to create, they'll be accepting and supportive.
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And then I started to realise, that's not true.
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That fairy tale I had is not true for me right now.'
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Perry later reflected on Brand's behaviour during her tour, telling Vogue in 2013 '[Brand] didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour.
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She added that when she first met him, 'he wanted an equal,' stating: 'I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they’re like, I can’t handle the equalness.'
Perry and Brand's romance came as something of a surprise when it first became public in 2009. They then held a lavish wedding in India at the Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary in 2010
Perry and Brand's romance came as something of a surprise when it first became public in 2009.
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The pair met on the set of Get Him To The Greek, the Hollywood movie in which Brand had a starring role and Perry had a cameo, which was ultimately cut.
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They then held a lavish wedding in India at the Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary in Rajasthan in 2010.
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Friends discussed their whirlwind love story in the show, saying: 'They definitely fell in love really quickly and very deeply.
'She always talked about a fairy tale kind of situation and I think she really found that with Russell.'
Meanwhile Perry mused: 'Maybe this is just a fantasy idea I have in my head but I think honestly that I found the love of my life.
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