Katy Perry has opened up about that infamous naked paddleboarding photo, which broke the internet back in 2016.
The singer, who is currently expecting her first child with the Lord of the Rings actor, explained during her recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show that the pair were on holiday in Italy at the time of the photograph, and that Bloom was simply embracing the European lifestyle by stripping off.
Perry even alleged that her 43-year-old fiancée tried to convince her to get naked too, but "I was like, nah."
"I mean, I would have never like set him up, if I had a real thought, but in the back of my mind… I am Jim Carrey in The Truman Show a little bit, so I thought maybe there would be a chance. I would say I’m a little more of the pragmatic in the partnership," the Firework singer told Stern.
She added that the couple had a "pretty chill time for a week," noting, "well, it was Europe… everywhere we looked it was like everybody’s naked, it’s Europe, it’s Italy".
"I think he wanted to fit in with the locals and it was the end of the trip," she continued, revealing that soon after the picture started making the rounds on social media, it became the number one trending topic on Twitter, to which Perry exclaimed: "How? How?"
Watch the clip below:Bloom has previously spoken to Stern about the photo, and explained that his package is "really not that big… things are expanded on cameras with a big optical lens. It is an optical illusion."
"The publicist called to say, ‘That is not the worst of it. First of all there were pictures with a block over it.’ And you make some jokes like: ‘Have you got a black box big enough to cover it?'" he continued. "And then you suddenly realise somebody is going to uncover the black box because they are going to be paid enough. It’s a triple whammy – photos, black box, then no black box."
He then said that he quickly texted his ex-wife, Miranda Kerr, to warn her and their eight-year-old son, Flynn, that the image was circulating on the internet.
