Ed Sheeran Recalls Struggle With Binge Eating Disorder & Being ‘Embarrassed’ By Depression

Ed Sheeran revealed that helium struggled with an eating upset and slump successful a caller illustration for Rolling Stone, published connected Tuesday, March 21. The popstar, 32, opened up astir suffering from depression arsenic a effect of the deaths of adjacent friends, uncovering retired his wife Cherry Seaborn had a tumor, and different nonrecreational unit successful the caller interview.

When speaking astir his struggles with an eating disorder, Ed revealed that helium would commencement “gorging” himself until “it would travel up again.” He continued and said helium was inactive moving connected addressing it. “I person a existent eating problem,” helium told Rolling Stone. “I’m a existent binge eater. I’m a binge-everything. But I’m present much of a binge exerciser and a binge dad. And work, obviously.”

Ed Sheeran opened up astir battles with slump successful the caller Rolling Stone interview. (Matt Crossick/Global/Shutterstock)

The “Perfect” vocalist admitted that helium “always had existent lows successful my life,” but didn’t statesman to code the issues until 2022. “No 1 truly talks astir their feelings wherever I travel from,” helium said. “People deliberation it’s weird getting a therapist successful England.… I deliberation it’s precise adjuvant to beryllium capable to talk with idiosyncratic and conscionable vent and not consciousness blameworthy astir venting. Obviously, like, I’ve lived a precise privileged life. So my friends would ever look astatine maine like, ‘Oh, it’s not that bad.’”

Ed spoke astir however a caller bout of slump was brought connected by the decease of his adjacent friend Jamal Edwards, a UK-based euphony entrepreneur, who died astatine 31 from cardiac arrhythmia arsenic a effect of cocaine use. The Substract singer admitted that portion he’d struggled with slump successful the past, this was particularly difficult. “I felt similar I didn’t privation to unrecorded anymore,” helium said. “And I person had that passim my life.… You’re nether the waves drowning. You’re conscionable benignant of successful this thing. And you can’t get retired of it.”

The vocalist aboriginal explained that “as a father,” helium had felt “embarassed” astir suffering from slump and said that helium felt similar the feelings were “selfish.”

Despite however hard it tin beryllium to woody with depression, Ed admitted that helium felt similar therapy helped arsenic did moving connected his music. He besides revealed that helium wore bracelets to wage tribute to Jamal and different honoring Michael Gudinski, who died successful 2021, but helium changed them retired for ones that Cherry had fixed him with the names of his kids to punctual him astir however important his household is to him. “The assistance isn’t a fastener that is pressed, wherever you’re automatically OK,” helium told the magazine. “It is thing that volition ever beryllium determination and conscionable has to beryllium managed.”

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