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Ed Sheeran and his friend<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ed Sheeran\u00a0has vowed to never take\u00a0drugs again, as continuing to do so would be \u2018disrespectful\u2019 to his late friend\u00a0Jamal Edwards\u2019 memory.<\/p>\n
entrepreneur Edwards tragically died from a cardiac arrest brought on by cocaine and\u00a0alcohol\u00a0use in February 2022.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old, who was the son of\u00a0\u2018Loose Women\u2019\u00a0star Brenda Edwards, had been pals with Sheeran since their childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would never, ever, ever touch anything again, because that\u2019s how Jamal died,\u201d said\u00a0Sheeran, who recently paid tribute to his late pal on the anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s just disrespectful to his memory to even, like, go near.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u2018Shape Of You\u2019 star told Rolling Stone that doing drugs started to feel like \u201cbad vibes\u201d, and that he has also cut down his alcohol consumption.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was always a drinker,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI didn\u2019t touch any sort of drug until I was 24.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember just being at a festival and being like, \u2018Well, if all of my friends do it, it can\u2019t be that bad,\u2019 and then sort of dabbling.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then it just turns into a habit that you do once a week and then once a day and then, like, twice a day and then, like, without booze.\u00a0It just became bad vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also credited his wife Cherry Seaborn for helping him quit hard alcohol.<\/p>\n
Sheeran, who shares children, Lyra, two and Jupiter, 10 months, with Seaborn, said: \u201cTwo months before Lyra was born, Cherry said, \u2018If my waters break, do you really want someone else to drive me to the hospital?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I was just drinking a lot. And that\u2019s when it clicked. I was like, \u2018No, actually, I really don\u2019t.\u2019 And I don\u2019t ever want to be p***ed holding my kid. Ever, ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a couple of beers is one thing, but having a bottle of vodka is another thing. It\u2019s just a realisation of, \u2018I\u2019m getting into my thirties. Grow up! You\u2019ve partied, you\u2019ve had this experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cBe happy with that and just be done. I love red wine, and I love beer. I don\u2019t know any old rockers that aren\u2019t alcoholics or sober, and I didn\u2019t want to be either.\u201d<\/p>\n
The star paid tribute to Edwards earlier this year with a touching freestyle that he filmed at Stamford Bridge,\u00a0the home of Chelsea FC, which was Edwards\u2019 favourite team.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also said he wouldn\u2019t have become a star without Edward\u2019s support.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ed Sheeran and his friend \u00a0 Ed Sheeran\u00a0has vowed to never take\u00a0drugs again, as continuing to do so would be \u2018disrespectful\u2019 to his late friend\u00a0Jamal Edwards\u2019 memory. entrepreneur Edwards tragically died from a cardiac arrest brought on by cocaine and\u00a0alcohol\u00a0use in February 2022. The 31-year-old, who was the son of\u00a0\u2018Loose Women\u2019\u00a0star Brenda Edwards, had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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