Ellie Goulding Dealt With ‘Trauma’ Over Rumors She Cheated On Ed Sheeran With Niall Horan

“It’s fascinating however galore radical are funny successful that. It happened 9 years ago,” Ellie Goulding tells Daily Mail of the rumors of infidelity betwixt her, Ed Sheeran, and One Direction’s Niall Horan. It’s been speculated that Ellie, 36, dated Ed, 32, and that their narration fell isolated erstwhile she allegedly slept with Niall, 29, with fans suspecting Ed’s 2014 opus “Don’t” was astir her. Ellie says that specified a script was the farthest happening from the truth. “You know, wholly honestly, [the rumors] caused maine a immense magnitude of… accent is not the word. It caused maine a batch of trauma, actually.”

Ellie stressed that she ne'er dated Ed successful the archetypal place. The alleged romance was thrust backmost into the spotlight erstwhile she responded to a TikTok user’s remark astir the rumors (“Can’t judge u cheated connected Ed with Niall, but slay [for real]”) with a resounding “False!!!!! But besides slay.”

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“How aged were we, 23?” she asked the Daily Mail. “I envy the information that my friends conscionable spent their 20s having flings and one-night stands and what each 20-something goes done successful private. But each azygous happening I did was written about. I was made to consciousness similar a unspeakable person, and I truly struggled with that due to the fact that I cognize I’m not.” As for her talking to Ed personally astir the allegations? “Of course! It is successful the past, and we’re friends. We’re adults.”

Goulding besides noted the scrutiny connected her idiosyncratic beingness that prompted her five-year interruption betwixt her albums – 2015’s Delirium and 2020’s Brightest Blue. “I tin laughter astir it now, but it changed things for me,’ she told the Mail. “I became benignant of reclusive. I didn’t privation to perform. That’s wherefore I wrote that remark due to the fact that each time I get comments astir this anserine teenage situation. It was nothing, and it was backstage – and it caused maine specified a immense magnitude of grief, and I resent it.”

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“It is not a mean occupation to beryllium photographed each day, to beryllium connected television, to beryllium doing photoshoots with 1,000 radical watching you portion they archer you to bash weird poses,” she added. “It’s not mean to beryllium scrutinized for your lyrics. I ticker politicians and wonderment however they negociate to hack it.”

Ed would accidental otherwise successful a 2013 interview. After helium and Ellie were spotted holding hands astatine that year’s MTV Video Music Awards, helium spoke with Washington vigor presumption Click 98.9 (per Us Weekly). “I mean, mean radical don’t clasp hands if they’re conscionable friends,” helium said. “It was going on. And present it’s not.”

Ed’s comments came aft Ellie tweeted a effect astir the rumors implicit the hand-holding. “I emotion that holding hands with my friends means we’re an item,” she wrote. “In that case, I americium successful galore relationships. Lover not a hater. #whatthef*ck.”

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