Ed Sheeran is nothing but a planner!
In an interview with GQ Hype released on Thursday, Sheeran was asked about a crypt he was rumored to have built on his estate in England.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a crypt,” Sheeran, 32, told the paper, adding that it’s actually a chapel where he can mourn the people in his life who have died. He also organizes his friends’ weddings there.
When the chapel was being built, he realized that he himself would like to be buried there 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 little stone over it, so whenever the day comes that I die, I go inside,” the “Photographa” singer explained.
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He added: “People think it’s really weird and really morbid, but I’ve had friends who have died without a will and nobody knows what to do.”
The “Shivers” singer has been candid about his grief in the past. In 2021, Michael Gudinski, his mentor, died at the age of 68 and he paid tribute to him at his memorial service in Australia. The following year, Sheeran’s best friend Jamal Edwards died at the age of 31. He also lost his close friend Shane Warne in 2022.
Ed Sheeran for GQ Hype.
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Sheeran — who released Autumn variations earlier this month — opened up about his mental health on Take away in May.
“I worked on Take away decade, trying to carve out the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be. Then, in early 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art,” he said in a press release in March.
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“Writing songs is my therapy. It helps me understand my feelings. I wrote without thinking about what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever came out. And in a little over a week, a decade of work, I replaced my deepest darkest thoughts, ” he continued.
“Within a month, my pregnant wife was told she had a tumor, with no possibility of treatment until delivery,” he continued about his wife Cherry Seaborn, with whom he had a second daughter last May.
“My best friend Jamal, my brother, died suddenly and I found myself in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter. I fought through fear, depression and anxiety,” the singer added, referring to a plagiarism lawsuit involving his song. “Shape of You”. “I felt like I was drowning, with my head below the surface, looking up, but I couldn’t get air.”
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