{"id":63623,"date":"2023-05-03T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/ed-sheeran-says-he-felt-like-he-was-drowning-after-wifes-cancer-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T19:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:15:44","slug":"ed-sheeran-says-he-felt-like-he-was-drowning-after-wifes-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/ed-sheeran-says-he-felt-like-he-was-drowning-after-wifes-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran says he felt like he was ‘drowning’ after wife’s cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed Sheeran\u00a0and his wife, Cherry Seaborn, are getting candid about her cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n
In the Disney+ documentary,\u00a0Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All<\/em>, the GRAMMY-winning singer breaks down the personal and intimate events in 2022 that inspired him to complete his album,\u00a0Subtract<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Throughout the limited docuseries, which is broken down into four parts,\u00a0Love<\/em>,\u00a0Loss<\/em>,\u00a0Focus<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Balance<\/em>, Sheeran and Seaborn open up about her cancer diagnosis and the effects it has had on their relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In episode one, Seaborn \u2013 who has remained largely out of the spotlight, details the diagnosis. Seaborn reveals that the doctors found a tumour in her arm when she was six months pregnant.<\/p>\n
During a date night at a painting studio, Seaborn shares why the diagnosis inspired her to take part in the documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI got diagnosed with cancer at the start of the year which was a massive sh*tter,\u201d she says. \u201cIt made me massively reflect on our mortality. I would never agree to do anything like this, but it made me think, \u2018Oh if I died, what\u2019s people\u2019s perception of me? What do you leave behind?’\u201d<\/p>\n
Seaborn adds, \u201cFor Ed, the whole point is he wants to say to people, \u2018I\u2019m not just this music machine. I\u2019m not just this robot that tries to get No. 1. I\u2019m a father, I\u2019m a son, I\u2019m a friend.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t until this year when I was like, \u2018I might die.’\u201d<\/p>\nEd Sheeran and Cherry (Stephen Pond\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Sheeran gets serious and emotional in the moment as he tells his wife that she is downplaying the diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was horrible,\u201d the \u201cShape of You\u201d singer says.<\/p>\n
Further into the episode, Sheeran notes how he tried to convince himself that everything would be OK, but it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept saying to you that it was just a lump and not to worry,\u201d he tells his wife. \u201cI remember rehearsing and getting a call from Cherry. The doctor was basically like, \u2018This is bad.’\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The couple adds that after months of looking at treatment plans and finding out that Seaborn\u2019s diagnosis was \u201cmuch less severe\u201d than what they were initially told, Seaborn was able to have her baby and have a successful surgery shortly thereafter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the documentary, Sheeran reflects on how traumatic events kept happening back to back \u2014 from his wife\u2019s cancer diagnosis to the death of his best friend, Jamal Edwards, and the 3-week court case where he was accused of plagiarizing his hit, \u201cShape of You.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nEd Sheeran and Sherry (Getty\/ Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
During the case \u2014 which he won \u2014 he could only focus on his wife.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sat in this courtroom with people shouting at me from all different angles, and in my head I\u2019m like, \u2018I hope Cherry\u2019s all right,’\u201d he recalls. \u201c\u2018I could lose this court case and life goes on, but life doesn\u2019t really go on if the person you love the most isn\u2019t in it.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheeran reflects on the pain he felt during his wife\u2019s cancer diagnosis and how it inspired him to make more music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe moment you find out that the worst thing in the world has happened to someone you love with all your heart, you feel like you\u2019re drowning and can\u2019t get out from under it. Just from that situation, all these songs came out,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Seaborn \u2014 who tied the knot with the singer in 2019 \u2014 reveals that while her husband is working to cope with the events, she has not been able to have a conversation with him about his mental health.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve barely had a conversation this year about his mental health,\u201d she says. \u201cI can see it and it\u2019s massive alarm bells to me. I\u2019m in a much better place from a processing perspective. I don\u2019t think Ed is there yet. There\u2019s no way he\u2019s had time to sit and process and be at peace with things. He\u2019s been too busy. He needs to stop, he needs to process. He hasn\u2019t processed at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a full-circle moment during the final episode, Sheeran and Seaborn unwrap the paintings from their date night to hang in their home the day after she finds out that she had a clear MRI and the cancer did not return.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all looks good,\u00a0lymph nodes are all calmed down and everything,\u201d she says. \u201cSo that was amazing, it was massive of us actually.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the end, Sheeran admits that he was feeling much better going into the new year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll great news and heading into a year, where it\u2019s hopefully all good news,\u201d he says as he hugs his wife. \u201cI feel great, super pumped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All\u00a0<\/em>is now streaming on\u00a0Disney+.<\/p>\n
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Ed Sheeran\u00a0and his wife, Cherry Seaborn, are getting candid about her cancer diagnosis. In the Disney+ documentary,\u00a0Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All, the GRAMMY-winning singer breaks down the personal and intimate events in 2022 that inspired him to complete his album,\u00a0Subtract.\u00a0 Throughout the limited docuseries, which is broken down into four parts,\u00a0Love,\u00a0Loss,\u00a0Focus\u00a0and\u00a0Balance, Sheeran and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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