Christina Perri Still Watches the Twilight Movies More Than a Decade Later: ‘They Are My People!’ (Exclusive)

Christina Perri will always love Twilight film series.

The singer whose hit song “A Thousand Years” was written for. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 In 2011, she says that famous fantasy films remain a television term for her.

“Whenever they’re on TV, you know I don’t change the channel,” she told PEOPLE at Audacy’s Leading Ladies event, hosted by Olay Body, at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn on Wednesday night. “Any hotel I go to, I walk by and it’s on? I said, ‘It’s a must!'”

Perri went on to say that the last time she sat down to watch five movies in their entirety was in 2020.

“[During] pandemic, I watched them all,” she said. “They are my people!”

Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the film ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’.

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The films, based on the book series by Stephenie Meyer, helped launch Kristen Stewart into a new stratosphere of stardom after the first film of the same name premiered in 2008. The series also stars Taylor Lautner as werewolf Jacob Black and Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen.

Perry’s song was designed as the lead single for the penultimate film, and was designed to help soundtrack the tortured love story between Bella and Edward.

Perri would later take a break from the music industry while working to build her family with husband Paul Costabile, which proved to be a challenge for the couple.

They welcomed daughter Carmella in 2018 before facing fertility issues – Perri miscarried in January 2020 and then, just 10 months later, her daughter Rosie was “silently born” after Perri was hospitalized at eight and half months of pregnancy due to complications.

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While Perri and Costabile are now the proud parents of 17-month-old daughter Pixie, who they dubbed their “double rainbow baby” when she was born in 2022, Perri has made it her mission to turn her grief into action to help other moms.

Christina Perri’s daughters Carmella and Pixie.

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Months after Rosie’s death, Perri discovered she had a treatable blood clotting disorder that may have caused both pregnancy losses.

While the disorder can be tested for while a woman is in the first trimester of pregnancy, the standard protocol set forth by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists calls for testing only after a woman has experienced two consecutive early pregnancy losses.

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Perri is looking for a change.

“While I’m waiting for the actual policy to change and the protocol to change — it’s taking so long — so word of mouth is it. So I feel like that’s what I’m working on right now,” she says of raising awareness. “I talk about it all the time, and then I know a lot of people who have taken the test [and] discovered that they had it. So many babies have already been saved — it seems worth it, but I won’t stop until women don’t even have to think about it.”

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