Shawn Mendes has fairly the relationship historical past.
The singer has been linked prior to now to Hailey Baldwin, Sabrina Carpenter and Camila Cabello.
As time has gone on, nonetheless, followers have began to invest over the artist’s sexuality… questioning, merely put, if Shawn Mendes is homosexual.
Such chatter has grown so loud that Mendes touched on this very character topic Monday evening when carried out his new album, Shawn, throughout an small live performance at Purple Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.
“The actual fact about my life and my sexuality is, man, I’m simply figuring it out like everybody. I don’t actually know typically and I do know different instances,” Mendes stated.
“It feels actually scary as a result of we stay in a society that has rather a lot to say about that. I’m making an attempt to be actually courageous and simply permit myself to simply be human and really feel issues.
“That’s all I wanna say about that for now.”
Many kudos to Mendes for being so candid.
He additionally opened up about people speaking about his sexuality since he was “actually younger,” explaining on stage:
“I feel it’s sort of foolish as a result of I feel sexuality is a superbly complicated factor and it’s so arduous to simply put into bins.
“It at all times felt like such an intrusion on one thing very private to me. One thing I used to be determining in myself. One thing I had but to find and nonetheless have but to find.”
Mendes was beforehand caught up in an alleged love triangle between himself, Carpenter and Cabello.
In new observe “The Mountain,” nonetheless, Mendes delves into his sexual preferences… and the way individuals have been so interested by it for thus lengthy.
“Scripting this tune felt actually essential to me. It felt like a second the place I may deal with it in a approach that felt near my coronary heart,” he stated on October 28. “I’m simply talking freely now as a result of I need to be nearer to everybody and be in my fact.”
Mendes had previously spoken out concerning the stress of coping with rumors about his sexuality.
“Behind my coronary heart, I really feel like I have to go be seen with somebody — like a lady — in public, to show to those that I’m not homosexual,” he advised Rolling Stone again in 2018. “Despite the fact that in my coronary heart I do know that it’s not a foul factor. There’s nonetheless a bit of me that thinks that. And I hate that aspect of me.”
