Ed Sheeran has revealed his wife encouraged him to curb his alcohol consumption shortly before the birth of their first child.
The singer, 32, married Cherry Seaborn in 2019. The couple welcomed their first daughter Lyra in August 2020 and their second, Jupiter, in May 2022.
According to the Mail, Sheeran was given a stark warning about his drinking from his wife a few months before she gave birth.
He said: “Two months before Lyra was born, Cherry said: ‘If my waters break, do you really want someone else to drive me to the hospital?’ That’s when it clicked.”
Sheeran is currently promoting his latest album - Subtract - which is due out next month.
His first single, Eyes Closed, has been released in the past few weeks to high acclaim.
After originally writing Eyes Closed as a break-up track, Sheeran said he revisited the song after experiencing personal loss and discovered the lyrics took on “a whole new meaning”.
Sheeran was good friends with Music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, who founded the music platform SBTV in 2006 that helped launch Sheeran’s career. He died in February last year at the age of 31.
Speaking about the new song, Sheeran said: “This song is about losing someone, feeling like every time you go out and you expect to just bump into them, and everything just reminds you of them and the things you did together.
“You sort of have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss, but certain things just bring you right back into it.”
Subtract is billed for release on May 5 and will feature 14 tracks written and recorded with The National’s Aaron Dessner in February last year.
While creating the album Sheeran and Dessner, who collaborated on Taylor Swift’s lockdown records Folklore and Evermore, wrote more than 30 songs during a month of studio time.
Subtract is the latest instalment in Sheeran’s mathematical symbol series, which has progressed through albums including = (Equals) and ÷ (Divide).
