Distance makes the heart grow fonder … but for Katy Perry, it was life-changing following her year-long split from Orlando Bloom.

The pop star reflected on the cause of her and Bloom’s breakup in 2017 on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast … admitting she wasn’t fully in the relationship when they first linked up in 2016.

She added … “I was fresh out of a relationship, and I was just like, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I need to go swim in a different pond,’ but I had yet to do a lot of real work.”

However, KP noted the actor started attending the Hoffman Institute during the initial stages of their relationship … where he did a lot of self-work. After the process, he came back and wasn’t open to playing the games anymore — so KP got bored, and and decided to step away from the relationship.

However, Katy credits this time apart as helping her grow into the woman she is today … as she too attended the Hoffman Institute and learned a lot about herself.

Watch the video … she continues — “I had a really tough year, and I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated, and then I got the tools and spoke the same language, and it changed my life.”

In fact, the singer said this work “saved [her] life,” as she believed she “would be dead without it.”

Katy and Orlando eventually reconciled, getting engaged in 2019 and welcoming their daughter, Daisy Dove, the following year.