<p id=”par-1_57″>In 2012, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/katy-perry/?swcfpc=1″>Katy Perry</a> released a documentary about her Part of Me tour that also captured the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/no-katy-perrys-part-of-me-not-russell-brand.html/”>dissolution of her marriage</a> with Russell Brand. Even before Brand informed Perry he wanted a divorce, he was notably absent from the footage. Perry said this wasn’t intentional. She saw him so infrequently that there was no footage of him.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-katy-perry-said-russell-brand-s-lack-of-screen-time-in-her-documentary-wasn-t-intentional”>Katy Perry said Russell Brand’s lack of screen time in her documentary wasn’t intentional</h2>
<p id=”par-2_38″>When Perry and Brand were together, her job took her away from him for weeks at a time. In <em>Katy Perry: Part of Me</em>, she mentioned that she wanted him to visit her on tour, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-did-russell-brand-and-katy-perry-divorce-perrys-career-mightve-had-something-to-do-with-it.html/”>but he wouldn’t</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-3_56″>“I mean, I have to claim my own responsibility in things,” she told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.vogue.com/article/beauty-and-the-beat-katy-perrys-first-vogue-cover” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Vogue</a> in 2013, after her divorce. “I do admit that I was on the road a lot. Although I invited him time and time again, and I tried to come home as much as I possibly could. You saw that in the movie.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_28″>She acknowledged that Brand was missing from the film, but she said that wasn’t intentional. They hadn’t cut him out after the divorce, he was just never around.</p>
<p id=”par-5_16″>“That wasn’t edited to leave footage out,” she said, adding, “There wasn’t any footage of him.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-katy-perry-and-russell-brand-separated-after-just-over-a-year-of-marriage”>Katy Perry and Russell Brand separated after just over a year of marriage</h2>
<p id=”par-6_58″><em>Katy Perry: Part of Me</em> captured the moment that Perry reacted to a text message from Brand telling her he <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/katy-perry-signed-her-divorce-papers-with-a-smiley-face.html/”>wanted a divorce</a>. This was backstage at one of her shows; she had to collect herself and get in front of the audience soon after. In 2013, Perry said this was the last she had heard from him.</p>
<p id=”par-7_38″>“He’s a very smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him,” she said. “Let’s just say I haven’t heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_11″>Perry believes her career and ambitions became a problem for Brand.</p>
<p id=”par-9_121″>“At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and 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,” she said. “He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour. So that was really hurtful, and it was very controlling, which was upsetting. I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending, but then I found out the real truth, which I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day. I let go and I was like: This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me. So I have moved on from that.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-began-a-relationship-with-john-mayer-after-her-divorce”>She began a relationship with John Mayer after her divorce</h2>
<p id=”par-10_33″>Not long after her marriage to Brand ended, Perry entered into a <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/katy-perry-admitted-madly-love-john-mayer-split.html/”>relationship with John Mayer</a>. The pair dated on and off until 2015. She denied that he was a rebound for her.</p>
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<p id=”par-11_51″>“No, I was madly in love with him. I still am madly in love with him,” she said, adding, “All I can say about that relationship is that he’s got a beautiful mind. Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.”</p>