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Shawn Mendes has fairly the relationship historical past.
The singer has been linked up to now to Hailey Baldwin, Sabrina Carpenter and Camila Cabello.
As time has gone on, nevertheless, followers have began to invest over the artist’s sexuality… questioning, merely put, if Shawn Mendes is homosexual.
Shawn Mendes performs on Mundo Stage as a part of the Rock In Rio Pageant at Cidade do Rock on September 23, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Picture by Wagner Meier/Getty Photographs)
Such chatter has grown so loud that Mendes touched on this very private throughout a 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 stated.
“It feels actually scary as a result of we reside in a society that has quite a bit to say about that. I’m attempting to be actually courageous and simply permit myself to only be human and really feel issues.
“That’s all I wanna say about that for now.”
Shawn Mendes attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Enviornment on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Picture by Mike Coppola/Getty Photographs for MTV)
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 believe it’s form of foolish as a result of I believe sexuality is a superbly complicated factor and it’s so exhausting to only put into packing containers.
“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.”
Shawn Mendes poses as David Yurman hosts occasion with Shawn Mendes in help of the Shawn Mendes Basis at David Yurman on November 15, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Picture by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Photographs for David Yurman)
Mendes was beforehand caught up in an alleged love triangle between himself, Carpenter and Cabello.
In his track “The Mountain,” nevertheless, Mendes delves into his sexual preferences… and the way folks have been so interested by 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 stated. “I’m just speaking freely now because I want to be closer to everyone and be in my truth.”
Mendes had previously spoken out concerning 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 instructed 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.”
