Speaking to Zane Lowe, Sheeran said that he confides in Swift as she "actually truly understands where I'm at", adding that the pair understand each other more than people realise. The singer was talking to Lowe, while promoting his album ‘-‘ (pronounced ‘subtract’).
“I had an hour-20 conversation with her yesterday and we were just — everything that was on our minds we talked about. I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well, because you’re actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it", Sheeran told Lowe. “That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treat you, how your friends treat you. She’s basically in the same sphere".
He continued, “I have a similar sort of friendship with Stormzy where I know what he’s going through and we can talk about it. His friends would be like my friends, where they say the same things".
Sheeran's latest album was also co-written by The National's Aaron Dessner, a collaboration which Sheeran revealed came about at the reccomendation of Swift.
“I’m always, not guarded, but I kind of would keep my distance if there would be a collaborator that she’d be working with closely just because that’s her thing", stated Sheeran. “And I don’t want to be like, ‘Well going to do that too".
“But she said, ‘I think it’d be really important for you as an artist to do what I did and work with Aaron because this is what it did for me,” he added. “So that sort of opened the door to it, and I am incredibly grateful. I’m making some of the most meaningful music to me that I’ve made in a very long time".
Sheeran's latest album marks a timultuous week for the Suffolk singer, having also won a copyright court case over his song 'Thinking Out Loud'.
A lawsuit was brought against Sheeran by the family of the late Ed Townsend who was Marvin Gaye's co writer. They claimed that Sheeran's 2014 hit had "striking similarities" and "overt common elements" to Gaye's 'Lets Get It On'.
After a three hour deliberation, it was ruled that Sheeran had not infringed on Townsend's family copyright of the track.
Earlier this week, Ed Sheeran's grandmother Nancy Sheeran aka Anne Mary Mulligan the inspiration behind the track 'Nancy Mulligan' passed away. Sheeran's court appearance forced him to miss the funeral.
