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Ed Sheeran Opens Up On His Struggles With Substance Abuse

Ed Sheeran has revealed he had struggles with substance abuse and how he was drinking too much in the past.

During an Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show, he talked about how he had difficulty coping with the fame.

“I think you need to, when you get into the industry, adjust to fame, 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’d never touched anything. I started slipping into it, and that’s why I took a year off and buggered off.”

He explained why he needed a break from the public eye, saying the break was more of a recovery.

“’I just felt like everything I did, I got a very lukewarm reaction by the end of it, but you disappear for a year and then people are kind of hungry for it again. 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 I took a year off.”

Adding that his girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn, was key in helping him getting better and back on track.

“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.”

 

Written by Zainab Sadiku

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