July 5 (UPI) -- Orlando Bloom is paying tribute to his late dog Mighty with a new tattoo.
The 43-year-old actor unveiled a tattoo in honor of Mighty, one of his dogs with his fiancée, singer Katy Perry, Tuesday on Instagram while announcing the pup's death.
Mighty, the brother of Bloom and Perry's dog Nugget, had been missing for several days. Bloom got Mighty's name and a heart with an ace of spades tattooed over his heart.
"Mighty's on the other side now. After 7 days of searching from sunrise to sunset and into the wee hours, today, the 7th day ~the number of completion~ we found his collar," Bloom captioned the post.
"I have wept more this week than I thought possible, which has been very cathartic and healing..." he said. "I left no stone unturned, crawled thru all the man holes, under the roads, searched every back yard and creek bed. Had two separate sniffer dogs do their best as well."
Bloom said Mighty taught him that "love is eternal" and the "true meaning of devotion."
"I feel sure he was looking down on me whistling in every back yard and knowing that I was doing all I possibly could to respect our bond. It was a soul connection for sure," he said. "I'm sorry. I love you."
Perry confirmed the news in a post on her own account.
"We'll miss our little buddy boy, Nugget's brother so much. Forever a paw shaped hole in our hearts #ripmighty," she wrote.
Model Cara Delevingne and actresses Jennifer Aniston and Cynthia Erivo were among those to send love to Bloom and Perry in the comments.
"The tears won't stop," Aniston wrote. "I'm so so so deeply sorry my friend. I love you."
"Oh no!! Gutted!!! Love to you!!!" Erivo said.
Bloom announced last week that Mighty was missing. He said in an emotional post Sunday that the experience was "a waking nightmare."
"I don't recall a time in my life where I've been so broken wide open. The rawness I have felt over these past few days and sleepless nights at the idea of my little man being lost and scared, with me unable to do anything to protect him, is a waking nightmare," the actor wrote.
"I feel powerless... maybe like so many others who are losing loved ones or unable to see our loved ones because of the times," he said.
Bloom said in a 2017 interview with Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1 that he got Mighty for Flynn, his now 9-year-old son with his ex-wife, Miranda Kerr.
Bloom and Perry got engaged in February 2019 and are expecting their first child together, a baby girl.
Moments from Katy Perry's music career
Katy Perry attends an interview session on MuchOnDemand, a celebrity and fan showcase, at the MuchMusic studios in Toronto on December 15, 2008. That summer, her hit song "I Kissed a Girl"
topped the Billboard chart. Photo by Christine Chew/UPI |
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performed at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 8, 2009. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry performs at Koko in London on February 26, 2009. Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo
Perry performs at the V Festival in Hyland's Park in Chelmsford, U.K., on August 23, 2009. Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo
Perry presented at the
MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles on June 6, 2010. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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performs on "Today" at Rockefeller Center in New York City on August 27, 2010. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI |
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performs at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York City on November 10, 2010. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI |
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Perry greets her husband at the time, Russell Brand, as she arrives at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 13, 2011. The couple
got divorced in December 2011. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry goofs around backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on August 28, 2011. Perry
won three awards including the biggest prize of the night for Video of the Year with "Firework" as well as honors for Best Collaboration and Best Special Effects. Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/UPI |
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Perry performs at the Direct TV Super Bowl XLVI Saturday Night concert in Indianapolis on February 4, 2012. UPI Photo | License Photo
Perry arrives for the MusiCares
Person of the Year Tribute to Paul McCartney in Los Angeles on February 10, 2012. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry is interviewed at the Billboard Annual Women in Music event where
she is to be honored on November 30, 2012 in New York City. Photo by Monika Graff/UPI |
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performs at the Kids' Inaugural to honor military families, in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 2013. Photo by Molly Riley/UPI |
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Perry, foreground, attends the premiere of the film with her grandmother Ann Hudson (L) in Los Angeles on July 28, 2013. Her
grandmother died in March 2020. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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performed at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City on August 25, 2013. Photo by Dennis Van Tine/UPI |
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performed at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on November 24, 2013. Photo by Phil McCarten/UPI |
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performed at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on January 26, 2014. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry performs "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" during halftime activities of Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Ariz., on February 1, 2015. Perry
won an Emmy for Outstanding Costumes For a Variety Program or a Special for the halftime show. Photo by Art Foxall/UPI |
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performed at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 8, 2015. She was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Pop Duo/Group Performance. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry mingles with fans upon arriving the world screening of "Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour" in Los Angeles on March 26, 2015. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Katy Perry
performs on day four of the Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016. That same summer, Perry released the 2016
Rio Olympics song. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI |
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R) reacts as
Perry shows her support for Clinton during a rally in Philadelphia on November 5, 2016. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI |
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performed at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 12, 2017. Perry joined the
revival of "American Idol" as a judge with Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie the following month. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry arrives on the red carpet
at the Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between" in New York City on May 1, 2017. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI |
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hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif., on August 27, 2017. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry
performed a special tribute to Dolly Parton at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2019. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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Perry arrives on the red carpet at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit
"Camp: Notes on Fashion" at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2019. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI |
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Perry (L) attends the premiere of "Carnival Row" with her fiancé and cast member Orlando Bloom in Los Angeles on August 21, 2019. In an interview in January 2020, Perry revealed
the spiritual journey the couple is on together. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI |
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