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Ed Sheeran Talks His Addictive Personality, Alcohol & Binge Eating

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July 29, 2020

Ed Sheeran Opens Up On His Addictive Personality: “I Would Drink All Night”

Ed Sheeran has been on a break from music for some months now, and he’s back to reveal why he decided to stay off public eye. The award winning singer touched some of his struggles during a recent discussion on Hay House Chasing the Present Summit.

“I have a very addictive personality,” he began. “I would stay up and drink all night. The buses would park underneath arenas and I’d sleep on the bus all day and then wake up and then come out, do the show, drink, get back on the bus. I didn’t see sunlight for like maybe like four months.”

“I’m covered in tattoos and I don’t do things by halves. If I’m gonna drink, I kinda see no point in having a glass of wine,” Ed said. “I’d rather have two bottles of wine. … It’s all fun and games at the start. It’s all rock and roll and it’s fun, and then it starts getting just sad. So I think that was probably the lowest that I’ve been.”

Ed Sheeran Opens Up On His Addictive Personality: "I Would Drink All Night"

Acccording to Huffpost, the 29 year old added that he related to Elton John’s battles with substance abuse as recounted in the Rocket Man’s 2019 memoir, “Me.”

“He would be like, ‘I would just go on an ice cream binge and eat four fucking desserts until I threw it up,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve done that before. Or his martini binges, where he sees how many martinis he can drink. And I’m like, ‘I’ve done that before, too.’”

The newly wed singer credits his wife for helping him through his darkest times. “She exercises a lot, so I went and started going on runs with her,” he said of Cherry Seaborn. “She doesn’t drink that much, so I wasn’t drinking. I think that all changed things.”