“Ed Sheeran has alerted fans that his upcoming album, “Subtract,” will overflow with feelings.
“In his April cover story interview with Rolling Stone, the British hitmaker details the incidents that contributed to his heightened emotional state last year – the sudden death of his best friend and his wife’s tumor diagnosis among them – and how, at 32, he’s become a domesticated family man.
“Sheeran admits to plunging into depression following the February 2022 loss of his closest pal, Jamal Edwards, a music entrepreneur who died of cardiac arrhythmia instigated by cocaine use.
“Coupled with the discovery that his then-pregnant wife Cherry Seaborn had developed a tumor that couldn’t be removed until giving birth (she underwent successful surgery after delivering second daughter Jupiter last May) and the death of another friend, Australian cricket star Shane Warne, Sheeran felt himself spiraling.”
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