Ed Sheeran recently appeared on the Jonathan Ross show, where he reveals that he has struggled with substance abuse. Here's what he had to say, as reprinted by E! News:
"I think you need to, when you get into the industry, adjust to [fame], and I didn't adjust because I was constantly working on tour. And all the pitfalls that people read about, I just found myself slipping into all of them. Mostly, like, substance abuse. I never touched anything. I started slipping into it, and that's why I took a year off and buggered off.
I focused on work, and I can't work under the influence. I can't write songs under the influence. I can't perform under the influence. So, the more I worked, the less [that happened]. I've worked my whole life to get to where I am, and you can't lose that over something that you do in your spare time.
I didn't really notice it was happening. It just started gradually happening, and then some people took me to one side and were like, 'Calm yourself down.' It's all fun to begin with. It all starts off as a party, and then you're doing it on your own and it's not, so that was a wake-up call and [I took] a year off."
On girlfriend Cherry Seaborn helping him kick his bad habits: "We live together now, and I think that was a real help grounding me. I was a 25-year-old in the music industry on tour, so I just needed someone to balance me out."
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