During her headlining set at the O Son do Camiño festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Katy Perry turned a giant smartphone stage prop into a pointed public statement, rejecting on-screen calls from Diplo, John Mayer, and Orlando Bloom before emphatically accepting one labeled "JPJT" — shorthand for former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Pierre James Trudeau, her current boyfriend. The moment, staged during a performance of her 2019 single "Never Really Over," circulated widely across social media and became the defining clip of the night.
The Stunt, Contact by Contact
Perry, 40, choreographed the sequence to land in descending order of awkwardness. When a call came in from Diplo — the DJ she briefly dated in 2014 following a Coachella meeting during a break with John Mayer — she hit "Decline" repeatedly, then covered her eyes and strutted away. A contact labeled "JM," an apparent reference to Mayer, prompted Perry to approach the phone before raising her hand and backing off; the two dated on and off between 2012 and 2015. The third decline went to "OB," standing in for Orlando Bloom, her former fiancé of nearly a decade. Perry wagged her finger and struck a pose. Perry and Bloom, who share a five-year-old daughter named Daisy Dove, ended their relationship in June 2025.
The Accept: Enter Trudeau
The final incoming call broke the pattern. A contact reading "JPJT," accompanied by a Canadian flag emoji and a red heart, drew a full-arm press of the accept button from Perry as the song closed out and the crowd responded audibly. The initials map to Trudeau's full name, Justin Pierre James Trudeau.
Timeline of a Public Romance
Perry and Trudeau first attracted attention in July 2025, when they were photographed dining together at Le Violon in Montréal. Trudeau attended one of Perry's sold-out Canadian concerts shortly after. The couple went public in December 2025, then formalized their visibility with a red carpet appearance together at the Tribeca Festival in New York City for the premiere of "Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour - Live from Paris."
In a People magazine interview at that premiere, Perry described the relationship in terms that tracked closely with her stage persona: she called herself "a rainbow kite" that flies high and needs grounding, said she had found "the love of my life," and described feeling "very anchored" and "really whole." The week before the Spain performance, Perry and Trudeau were photographed together on a picnic in Santa Barbara, California, approaching what the couple's timeline marks as their one-year anniversary.