Ed Sheeran has just shown us his most vulnerable side, ever!

 

Ed will be appearing on ‘The Johnathan Ross Show’ in the UK on Saturday night, and our beloved Ed will reveal how his instant rise to fame affected him in a dark way.

 

“I think you need to, when you get into the industry, adjust to it — and I didn’t adjust because I was constantly working on tour. And all the pitfalls that people read about, I just found myself slipping into all of them. Mostly, like, substance abuse. I never touched anything. I started slipping into it, and that’s why I took a year off and buggered off.”

Ed continues to say, “I focused on work, and I can’t work under the influence, I can’t write songs under the influence, I can’t perform under the influence — so the more I worked the less [that happened]. I’ve worked my whole life to get to where I am and you can’t lose that over something that you do in your spare time.”

 

Source: Ed Sheeran

 

He also explains that his issue with substance abuse happened gradually, “I didn’t really notice it was happening. It just started gradually happening, and then some people took me to one side and were like, ‘Calm yourself down’… It’s all fun to begin with, it all starts off as a party and then you’re doing it on your own and it’s not, so that was a wake-up call and taking a year off.”

 

Ed does give lots of to credit to his girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn, for helping him get better and for grounding him. “We live together now, and I think that was a real help grounding me. I was a 25 year old in the music industry on tour so I just needed someone to balance me out.”

“I’ve cut [out] excessive beer. I’ll still have a point. But what I would do is I’d have like five or six pints a night. So what I’ll do, I’ll have a pint, then I’ll move to a less…Well, a beer is like having a loaf of bread, isn’t it? So a less-loaf-of-bread-y kind of drink. The best part of the day is the first beer. Second beer never tastes as good. So I’ll switch to wine or gin or something after that.”

 

Source: Daily Mirror

 

We are so happy that Ed is taking the time to get better and to focus on himself! 

 

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