According to court filings from the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the famous couple, who acquired their Santa Barbara property in July 2020, are now in a legal struggle over their $15 million home and are poised to launch a trial against the individual who sold them the house.

Carl Westcott, 83, alleges he sold his home while excessively medicated after taking several heady pain-killing opiates’.

Westcott argues in court records that he “lacked the mental capacity to understand the nature and probable consequences of the contract” because he was on painkillers following back surgery a few days before the real estate deal.

“In addition to [Westcott’s] frailty from advanced age and poor health [sic] from Huntington’s Disease, [Westcott] had a major six-hour surgery less than a week before the proposed contract to sell his home was presented to him on July 14, 2020,” according to the documents.

According to the report, “the multiple opiate medications, which were a synthetic form of morphine, disoriented and intoxicated [Westcott], robbing him of reason and understanding about the terms and consequences of the contract, and seriously impaired [Westcott’s] mental faculties to the point where he was of unsound mind and not competent to give his free, voluntary, or intelligent consent to the contract.”

“The contract that [Westcott] signed to sell his home is therefore void or voidable,” the court said.

While the ‘Fireworks’ singer and the Pirates of the Caribbean star are not named as defendants in the claim, Bernie Gudvi, the business manager who represented the couple during the sale of the mansion, is.

Westcott emailed brokerage company Berkshire Hathaway Property Services and claimed ‘that he did not want to sell his property’ after discovering he had been of ‘unsound mind’ at the time, according to the complaint.

According to Westcott’s lawsuit, after refusing to sell his property, the veteran got letters from an attorney representing Gudvi, Perry, and Bloom.

“On July 24, 2020, Mr. Westcott received a letter from a lawyer,” the court records say. In summary, the letter said that the lawyer represented not just [business manager] Mr. Bernie Gudvi but also Mr. Orlando Bloom and Ms. Katheryn Hudson (professionally known as Katy Perry), for whom Mr. Gudvi had always acted.

“The letter advised Mr. Westcott that his clients, Mr. Bloom and Ms. Hudson, are not willing to walk away from purchasing Mr. Westcott’s home and that he is obligated to complete the sale.”

The non-jury trial is expected to begin later this month (August 21)) in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, three years later.