Posts Tagged ‘Katy Perry’

Obviously. Because GOOP deemed it so in an edict, chirrens must be the center of every woman’s life. If you don’t surrender your uterus and reproductive rights at the altar, your world/ marriage will crumble around you. For GOOP told me so. At least that’s what I glean from new source reports about what went wrong in the marriage of Katy Perry and Russell Brand. According to sources, it’s Perry’s fault the marriage failed because she didn’t immediately halt her career to start a family (I’m not sure I believe the sources, since the marriage was only 14-months total and their lifestyles seemed to be more contentious). But, for the record, sources claim: ‘I don’t think Katy really understood what marriage was about. I don’t think she was prepared to give up her career. This wasn’t one of those occasions when Russell was mucking about, he wanted to settle down and have a family. I don’t think that’s what Katy wants. I think she’s very confused. They’ve been speaking a lot. There have been a lot of phone calls this week. Katy is 27. That’s not too young to get married. But professionally she is in a very powerful position. She’s just done a year-long tour, she’s incredibly successful and she wasn’t ready to give up her career. I don’t think she was prepared to give that up and give time to the marriage. It was reported she was taking a year off, but I don’t think she’s doing that. It’s very sad. Russell is very cut up about it all. It’s not great news. It is very raw and very recent. I don’t know what will come from this.’ So, um, marriage is tantamount to giving up one’s career. Noted. Sidenote: Asked about the split, Perry’s father said: ‘I can’t talk, I’m sorry about that [but] I’ve had 1,500 people calling me today. I’m really sorry.’

Not that. There are some early reports about why Russell Brand filed for divorce, why the estranged couple spent Christmas and New Year’s ringless and apart, and what went wrong. About most of which I do not care, since the only reason we’re hearing about this on another long holiday weekend is Brand botched the timing of his filing (according to yesterday’s TMZ Live, Brand filed in Los Angeles in the morning, allowing the media time to access the papers… rather than the tried and tested trick of waiting until minutes before the courts close). Well, the question is why did Brand file at all? According to TMZ.com, Katy Perry and Brand have been struggling for months, of the 14-month marriage, and she was on board with the divorce weeks ago. They felt ‘it just wasn’t there’ after months of trying to work things out. She wanted him to file because her evangelical Christians parents/ upbringing led her to believe divorce was wrong. Neither wanted to be in Los Angeles when the papers were filed, so she went to Hawaii and he to London. On December 2, they both mock tabloid rumours of a split.

The rumours have come to a head after hours on a Friday (before New Year’s, no less). Only three-hours ago, did TMZ.com report that Russell Brand and Katy Perry had major marital problems but intended to work things out. Either their sources were off or the marriage fell apart since I had my nap, because Brand has filed for divorce. The papers he filed in Los Angeles cite ‘irreconcilable differences’ as the reason for their split. Brand released a statement, saying: ‘Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage. I’ll always adore her and I know we’ll remain friends.’ That won’t be true for long, since Brand just blindsided his estranged wife. They denied a split on a few weeks ago, to Ellen DeGeneres and to Barbara Walters. Then they fought, spent the holidays apart then split. The couple had no chirrens.

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