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 take a position 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 persona topic Monday night time when carried out his new album, Shawn, throughout an small live performance at Purple Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.
“The real truth about my life and my sexuality is, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone. I don’t really know sometimes and I know other times,” Mendes mentioned.
“It feels actually scary as a result of we stay in a society that has lots 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 of us speaking about his sexuality since he was “really young,” explaining on stage:
“I feel it’s sort of foolish as a result of I feel sexuality is a fantastically advanced factor and it’s so laborious to simply put into bins.
“It always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me. Something I was figuring out in myself. Something I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover.”
Mendes was beforehand caught up in an alleged love triangle between himself, Carpenter and Cabello.
In new monitor “The Mountain,” nonetheless, Mendes delves into his sexual preferences… and the way individuals have been so inquisitive about it for thus lengthy.
“Writing this song felt really important to me. It felt like a moment where I could address it in a way that felt close to my heart,” he mentioned on October 28. “I’m just speaking freely now because I want to be closer to everyone and be in my truth.”
Mendes had previously spoken out in regards to the stress of coping with rumors about his sexuality.
“In the back of my heart, I feel like I need to go be seen with someone — like a girl — in public, to prove to people that I’m not gay,” he advised Rolling Stone again in 2018. “Even though in my heart I know that it’s not a bad thing. There’s still a piece of me that thinks that. And I hate that side of me.”
