Pop superstar Ed Sheeran has been talking about his year off from showbiz in 2015 when the dark side of fame caught up with him as fans wouldn’t leave him alone
Superstar Ed Sheeran stepped away from music after crazed fans tried to peek at his privates in loos. The pop superstar decided to walk away from pop music 10 years ago to stabilize his mental health and life after a staggering rise to fame.
Sheeran decided to take a hiatus – fearing a breakdown after the enormous success of his album x and its globe trotting tour.
The Suffolk singer songwriter paused his life and career in December 2015, stepping away for a year from his phone and social media to gain new life experiences.
Ed, 34, said: “I got very paranoid and didn’t really like going outside. People would film me doing things, like eating. I know this sounds really weird.
“But anywhere when I would go to a urinal, you would just get loads of people standing beside you trying to f****ng look at your c*** .
“It was just weirdness. So I just ended up not really going out that much. And when I pulled the plug and went travelling, it just sort of dissipated all that.”
Ed was on the brink of a breakdown before he and his future wife Cherry travelled around the world to “live a little more” throughout 2016. He said: “At the end of Multiply and you’re on this promo run, it was the first time I’d discovered drugs.
“I ballooned in weight. I wasn’t seeing any of my friends. When you’re playing arenas as well, you don’t see the sunlight. I was partying all night, sleeping all day, just intensely lonely, intensely unhappy, and kind of like the archetypal artist.
“That’s kind of what I turned into and I just sort of pulled the plug and I was just like, I’m having time off. And I’ve met my now wife. We went traveling. I was creating the whole time.”
