Who was the song the one that got away by Katy perry about?

Answer 1

A lot of people thought it was about her divorce from Russell Brand, but that is unlikely since she wrote it long before they were divorced. She has said it does not apply to any one person in particular-- it's a song about first love, about remembering that time and that feeling and regretting the "one that got away"-- the one you thought you would be with forever, but things didn't turn out as you had planned. Katy has said she thought this would be a song a lot of people could relate to, since many of us have someone we loved and lost and sometimes still think about.