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‘Spiralling through fear’: Ed Sheeran reveals wife’s shock diagnosis appeared on www.skynews.com.au by Adriana Mageros.
Ed Sheeran has used a personal diary entry on his recent mental struggles to announce his new album, Subtract.
The British singer-songwriter revealed his deepest inner thoughts while creating the album in a post on social media on Wednesday.
Sheeran shared a photo on Twitter, taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz, of one of his handwritten diary entries from February last year.
“I had been working on Subtract for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,” the diary entry said.
“Then at the start of 2022, a series of events damaged my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.”
Sheeran revealed his wife Cherry Seaborn was diagnosed with a tumour in February last year while she was pregnant with their second daughter, and could not undergo treatment until after the birth.
He also spoke of the sudden death of his best friend and “brother” Jamal Edwards, which happened in the same month, along with his court battle over the 2017 hit Shape of You.
“I found myself in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter,” Sheeran wrote.
“I was spiralling through fear, depression and anxiety.
“I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not being able to break through for air.
“As an artist I didn’t feel like I could credibly put out a body of work into the world that didn’t accurately represent where I am and how I need to express myself at this point in my life.
“This album is purely that. It’s opening the trapdoor into my soul.”
Despite Subtract being a decade in the making, Sheeran said he replaced the work with his “deepest, darkest thoughts” in just over a week in wake of what happened in his life early last year.
“Writing songs is my therapy. It helps me make sense of my feelings,” he said.
“I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out.”
Sheeran touched down in Melbourne this week as part of his The Mathematics Tour across Australia and New Zealand.
On Tuesday, the star made a surprise visit to meet St Kilda AFL players ahead of his two shows at the MCG on Thursday and Friday.
He also visited the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne on Tuesday to perform for patients and staff.
Subtract is the latest instalment of Sheeran’s mathematics-themed albums which will be released on May 5.
“For the first time, I’m not trying to craft an album people will like, I’m merely putting something out that’s honest and true to where I am in my adult life,” Sheeran wrote.
Subtract can now be pre-ordered from the official Ed Sheeran website.
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