Katy Perry turned a Spain festival set into the pettiest, most public love letter to Justin Trudeau, rejecting calls from her famous exes onstage during her show on Thursday, 18 June 2026.
The moment happened at the O Son do Camiño festival in Santiago de Compostela while Perry performed her 2020 single Never Really Over, as reported by Just Jared.
A giant prop phone behind her lit up with incoming calls, and she made a whole performance of deciding who got through.
How the Katy Perry phone stunt played out
The song is all about being tempted to call an irresistible ex, so Perry leaned right into the bit. When a call marked JM with a guitar emoji popped up, a not-so-subtle nod to John Mayer, she hit the red button and sent him straight to voicemail.
A second call referencing Diplo got the exact same cold treatment. Then OB flashed up, complete with a spade emoji winking at Orlando Bloom’s ace of spades chest tattoo, and Perry simply let it ring out.
The crowd understood the assignment immediately.
For anyone keeping score, the references were deliberate and instantly readable. Mayer and Perry dated on and off years ago, Bloom and Perry share a daughter after a long engagement that ended, and Diplo has been romantically linked to her in the past.
Nothing about the lineup was accidental.
What the moment says about Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau
Then came the punchline. When the initials JPJT appeared under a Canadian flag emoji, a fairly transparent shout-out to Justin Pierre James Trudeau, Perry hit the green answer button again and again, grinning like someone who very much wanted that call.
Perry and the former Canadian prime minister have been one of the most talked-about pairings of the year, after months of speculation, sightings and eventually photos that confirmed the romance.
The onstage stunt was the first time she has folded the relationship into her actual show this openly.
It also lands while Perry is still touring heavily, so the clip raced around social media within hours, racking up reactions from fans who loved the audacity and from a few who thought dragging the exes was a bit much.
Either way, it did exactly what it was designed to do.
Perry has not addressed the stunt off the stage, and Trudeau has stayed quiet too, which only feeds the appetite for the next public sign of the romance.
With her tour rolling on across Europe, fans will be watching every setlist to see whether the prop phone makes another appearance.
