Ed Sheeran has opened up on his long-standing friendship with fellow hit-maker Taylor Swift.
Describing the I Knew You Were Trouble singer as one of the "only people that actually truly understands" him and where he's currently at in his career, Ed, 32, added that speaking to Taylor, 33, is like "therapy".
Speaking to Apple Music 1 frontman Zane Lowe, father-of-two Ed – who shares daughters Lyra Antarctica and Jupiter with wife Cherry Seaborn – claimed he recently spent over an hour on the phone with his fellow chart-topper.
"I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she's one of the only people that actually truly understands where I'm at.
"I had an hour-20 [minute] conversation with her yesterday and we were just — everything that was on our minds we talked about. I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well, because you're actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it."
He continued: "That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treat you, how your friends treat you. She's basically in the same sphere."
The Thinking Out Loud singer-songwriter also shared how his friendship with Taylor – who jointly performed the 2012 track Everything Has Changed – branches into his work, claiming she had encouraged him to collaborate with producer Aaron Dessner, who had previously worked on albums Folklore and Evermore with Taylor.
He claims Taylor would tell him: "I think it'd be really important for you as an artist to do what I did and work with Aaron because this is what it did for me. And I think you and Aaron should work together."
Ed added the the opportunity to work as a trio "opened the door" to further opportunities, adding, "I am incredibly grateful. I'm making some of the most meaningful music to me that I've made in a very long time."
The star shed happy tears earlier this week after winning his plagiarism case, which fought allegations that he ripped off part of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 song, Let’s Get It On, for his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud.
The singer, 32, who has battled and won court cases similar before, spoke spoke outside of a US courthouse while explaining his joy yet 'frustration' over the situation.
Going on for years now, it was back in 2017 that singer Kathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of Ed Townsend, one of the co-writers on the Marvin Gaye track, filed a lawsuit against him in 2017.
Giving a statement following the victory, Ed joked: "It looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job after all," before getting more serious and sharing: "But at the same time, I'm unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court."
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