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Ed Sheeranis ready to show his innermost self to the world.
On Tuesday night, Sheeran attended the premiere of his new Disney+ docuseriesEd Sheeran: The Sum of It Allin New York City at The Times Center, shortly after spending another day in the courtroom as hefights a copyright lawsuit.
Sheeran wore a black jacket, a white shirt, and matching black pants.
In the four-part docuseries, which premieres Wednesday, the “Shape of You” singer, 32, sheds light on his private life and struggles, including hiswife Cherry Seaborn’s cancer diagnosis and thedeath of his best friendJamal Edwards.
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In the first episode titled “Love,” Sheeran and Seaborn — who largely shies away from the spotlight — share a heart-to-heart as she explains why she decided to be a part of the documentary.
“I got diagnosed with cancer at the start of the year which was a massive s—ter,” she said. “It made me massively reflect on our mortality. I would never agree to do anything like this but it made me think, ‘Oh if I died, what’s people’s perception of me? What do you leave behind?'”
Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn.JMEnternational/Getty
Seaborn added, “For Ed, the whole point is he wants to say to people, ‘I’m not just this music machine. I’m not just this robot that tries to get No. 1. I’m a father, I’m a son, I’m a friend.’ It wasn’t until this year when I was like, ‘I might die.'”
In a much more serious tone, Sheeran said that his wife is playing it down and begins to get teary-eyed as he explained, “It was horrible.” He later says that he wrote seven songs in four hours to cope with the pain he felt.
While “Love” focuses on Seaborn, “Loss” is about the death of Edwards at age 31, “Focus” follows Sheeran as he writes and records his upcoming album, and “Release” details the challenges in finding balance between work and parental responsibilities.
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Sheeran will release his latest album pronouncedSubtract(but displayed as “-") on Friday.
On March 1, the musician announced via press release that he poured his “deepest, darkest thoughts” into his new album.
“I had been working onSubtractfor 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,” he shared. “Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art,” he said.
“Writing songs is my therapy. It helps me make sense of my feelings. I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out. And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts,” he added.
source: people.com
