In an interview with GQ Hype released Thursday, Sheeran was asked about a rumored crypt he built on his estate in England.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a crypt,” Sheeran, 32, told the outlet, adding that it’s actually a chapel where he can mourn the people in his life who have died. He also hosts his friend’s weddings there.
When the chapel was being built, he realized that he would want to be buried there himself so that his daughters, Lyra and Jupiter, would have a place to remember him.
“It’s a hole that’s dug in the ground with a bit of stone over it, so whenever the day comes and I pass away, I get to go in there,” the “Photograph” singer explained.
He added, “People think it’s really weird and really morbid, but I’ve had friends die without wills, and no one knows what to do.”
The “Shivers” singer has been candid about his grief in the past. In 2021, Michael Gudinski, his mentor, died at age 68 and he paid tribute to him at his memorial service in Australia. The following year, Sheeran’s best friend Jamal Edwards died at age 31. He also lost his close friend Shane Warne in 2022.
Sheeran — who released Autumn Variations earlier this month — opened up about his mental health on Subtract in May.
“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. 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 in a March press release.
“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 continued.
“Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth,” he continued of wife Cherry Seaborn, with whom he welcomed a second daughter in May of last year.
“My best friend Jamal, a brother to me, died suddenly and I found myself standing in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter. I was spiralling through fear, depression and anxiety,” added the singer, referencing a plagiarism lawsuit involving his song “Shape of You.” “I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not being able to break through for air.”
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