Ed Sheeran has revealed that his wife Cherry Seaborn was diagnosed with a tumor when she was pregnant with their second child last year, which could not be treated until after the birth.
Couple welcomed their daughter in May 2022 and are also parents to Lyra Antarctica, who was born in August 2020.
In an emotional post on Instagram to announce his new album, Subtract, the Suffolk singer-songwriter described how the news of the tumour, the death of his close friend Jamal Edwards and a High Court copyright battle left him “overwhelmed with fear, depression”. Took” and worry”.
“I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not gasping for air,” the 32-year-old revealed.
“As an artist I didn’t feel like I could credibly put a body of work out into the world that accurately reflected where I was and how I needed to express myself at this point in my life. does not represent
“This album totally is. It’s opening cobwebs in my soul.
“For the first time I’m not trying to put out an album that people will like, I’m just putting out something that’s honest and true to my adult life.”
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He said he had been working on the new album for a decade but the events of 2022 changed his “life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art”.”Writing songs is my therapy,” he added.
“I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out.
“And in just over a week I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts.”
