Ed Sheeran opens up about Ellie Goulding… and writing ‘Don’t’

It's been almost two years since Ed Sheeran and Ellie Goulding's rumoured relationship came to a messy end, but Ed has just revealed some more information.

According to numerous reports last year, Ellie slept with One Direction's Niall Horan while she was still seeing Ed on and off, causing the blossoming romance between the two singers to come to an abrupt stop.

Ed may have moved on with his (now ex) girlfriend Athina Andrelos, but his frustration and anger about the Ellie situation was laid out for all to see in the lyrics of Don't, one of the biggest singles from his latest album.

Including lyrics like, "And I never saw him as a threat, until you disappeared with him to have sex of course… It's not like we were both on tour, we were staying on the same f***ing hotel floor," the song makes no secret of the singer's feelings.

 

Ed reportedly confirmed last year that the song was indeed about Ellie, but in a new interview he says he never intended to do so.

"I never let it slip," he told Entertainment Weekly in a feature published yesterday. "What happened was one of the newspapers in England just printed that it was confirmed when it never was. We got in touch, and they took the story down. But obviously the damage had already been done by that point because every other newspaper picked up on it."

It's the raw emotion behind Don't that has made the song such a hit, and Ed says he wouldn't have written it any other way. "I had to be as honest as possible in that song because otherwise what’s the f***ing point? There’d be no anger or pain in that song if it was just very sweet and nice," he explained.

"The whole reason people connected to it was because everyone’s been that angry at one point, everyone’s hated their partner or spouse like, 'Don’t f*** with this.' For me, it needed to be done."

Well said, Ed!