Fans lose it over viral video of Orlando Bloom after shock split: 'I stand with Katy Perry!'

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Katy Perry fans have found themselves divided over a viral video of Orlando Bloom meditating and chanting in the morning.
In the resurfaced clip, Orlando, who has been a practicing Buddhist since he was 16, sits cross-legged and shirtless on the living room floor while praying.
The Lord of the Rings star can be heard intoning the Japanese devotional phrase: 'Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō,' a mantra from the Nichiren branch of Buddhism meant to erase bad karma and assist in the quest for enlightenment.
Now the footage has recirculated on social media in the wake of last week's shock news that Katy, 40, and Orlando, 48, have split after a nine-year romance that produced their daughter Daisy Dove, four.
Posting the video to Instagram, one waggish social media user quipped: 'Katy Perry may have lost her man but she gained silence every morning.'
Irreverent viewers leapt into the comments with cheeky jibes like: 'That's what marrying Katy Perry did to him,' and: 'LOL this is why I don't date super hot men. There's always something off,' while others took offense and upbraided the jokesters for being 'disrespectful' to Orlando's faith.
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'Wow that explains a lot now. I stand with Katy Perry!' vamped one Instagram user as another cracked: 'Marrying katy perry makes u wanna detox for live.'
'He was trying to rebuke her,' giggled a viewer, while another observer snarked: 'So much enlightenment and still friends with Bezos...'
Orlando also had a fleet of defenders who fired back with retorts like: 'This is like 100% less annoying than just the sight of Katy Perry,' and: 'I'd rather listen to him chant than listen to her sing.'
'I'm sure most of the commenters would put up with his morning chants for the late-night screams he'd give you...' wrote one viewer.
'Just meditation,' another Instagram user argued. 'Also he looks f***ing great so yeah he can chant all he wants hahaha. He's good.'
'As a Buddhist myself- I can't tell you how sexy this is. I'm single too Orlando. And I'll lead the chant!' a commenter breathlessly offered.
'Nothing wrong with incorporating a little Buddhism in your day,' another maintained. 'Dealing with her, probably made the man have to meditate. Lol.'
Others took umbrage at the people mocking Orlando, snapping: 'This is so disrespectful,' and: 'I never understood why people make fun of people's worship.'
'This is a very powerful mantra. Period. Nothing to laugh about,' scolded one as another insisted: 'Let him chant in peace. Why are you annoyed by Buddhism? Maybe you need to look deeper within.'
Orlando has a long history with the chant: 'Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō,' as it was the mantra that first enticed him to convert to Buddhism when he was 16 years old and heard a painter who had become his mentor repeating it.
'I just said to him one day: "What are you doing?" And he said: "I'm chanting that you're going to do really well in your exams, and then you're going to have a really successful life,"' Orlando recalled on the Today show last year.
Although he questions his faith '10 times a day,' he has 'never stopped' his Buddhist practice 'because I found it to be very, very helpful to me.'
He explained, chuckling: 'It's not like I chant: "Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō" to be, like, levitating. No, I chant: "Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō" to survive my life and everything that happens in life. Chanting helps me to navigate the nastiness.'
In 2003 - the year fans saw him in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film and the finale of the Lord of the Rings trilogy - he was inducted into the Buddhist lay organization Soka Gakkai at their headquarters in a Victorian stately home in Buckinghamshire.
Orlando has shared a Buddhist mentor called David with his friend Courtney Love, who credited him with helping her stay sober via their mutual faith.
The newly resurfaced chanting video went viral four years after Orlando was brutally derided for his 'quite LA' daily routine, which included 'a lot of time dreaming about roles for myself and others - for minorities and women,' he told the Sunday Times.
He gushed about 'eye-gazing' with Daisy, who was then a baby, and also noted his 20 minutes of Buddhist chanting every morning.
Orlando would 'earn my breakfast' by going on a hike while listening 'to some Nirvana or Stone Temple Pilots' - though not before having some 'green powders that I mix with brain octane oil, a collagen powder for my hair and nails, and some protein.'
He explained in the interview. 'I'm 90 per cent plant-based, so I'll only eat a really good piece of red meat maybe once a month. I sometimes look at a cow and think, that's the most beautiful thing ever.'