Shawn Mendes opens up about a complicated period in his love life.
In a preview clip of his upcoming interview with John Mayer on Thursday, Dec. 12, on the “New Light” singer’s SiriusXM show How lifeMendes, 26, mentioned a past love triangle.
“I’m with someone. Two days before I’m going to hang out with my ex, [I] expressions, I’m going to hang out with my ex because I have unresolved feelings,” Mendes told Mayer. “Maybe instead of two days it could have been two weeks.”
Mendes added, “The biggest lesson I’ve heard is that no one gets out of this life without being hurt, and no one gets out of this life without hurting someone.”
This story would align with rumors surrounding Mendes in early 2023. At the time, he was rumored to be dating Sabrina Carpenter, though he denied they were in a relationship. Around the same time, he was spotted rekindling his romance with ex Camila Cabello.
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While none of the parties involved have directly commented on the situation, many fans think Carpenter let her music do the talking with her hit song “Taste.”
The lyrics of the revenge song read: “I heard you’re back together and if it’s true / You’ll just have to taste me while he kisses you / If you want forever, I bet you do / Just know you’ll taste me.”
Then in September, fans speculated that Cabello, 27, was picking on Carpenter, 25, during her performance at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival while singing her and Mendes’ ex “Señorita.”
“You say we’re just friends/But friends don’t know the way you…” Cabello sang, deliberately pausing before singing the next word “taste,” and instead placing a finger to her lips with a suggestive look before than she continued the song.
Cabello and Mendes first divorced in 2021 before briefly rekindling their romance in 2023.
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“It’s just like it doesn’t fit you, you don’t feel good,” Cabello said on Call her dad podcast in March of their second split. “And I think, luckily, I was at a place in my life where it took me less time to figure it out. It took less time for both of us to say, ‘This doesn’t look good and we don’t need to work so hard to make it work. Everything is good.’”
She continued: “I will always care for him and love him. He’s such a good person and I’m happy because some people have exes that are awful and he’s not. He is a really nice, good person.”
Echoing the same sentiment, Mendes praised Cabell during a September appearance on Jay Shetty’s Deliberately podcast.
“She’s an amazing human being and she’s incredibly understanding and considerate and caring,” he said of the Fifth Harmony student at the time. “So communicating with her is not difficult and that’s probably a big part of it.”
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As for Carpenter, the singer continued her romance with SaltburnBarry Keoghan, although a source confirmed to PEOPLE earlier this month that the former couple had split.
“They’re both young and career-focused, so they’ve decided to take a break,” the insider said of Keoghan, 32, and Carpenter.
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