Shawn Mendes hugs musician Mike Sabath after revealing truth about his sexuality following gay rumors

Shawn Mendes was seen sharing an clasp pinch musician Mike Sabath successful Los Angeles connected Tuesday - conscionable 1 time aft revealing nan 'truth' astir his sexuality. 

The Stitches hitmaker, 26 - who also seemed to reside cheery rumors successful a caller way titled The Mountain - was spotted loading luggage into a parked conveyance pinch nan chap musician, besides 26. 

Earlier this week connected Monday, Mendes expressed that he was still 'figuring out' his sexuality during a performance astatine nan reddish Rock Amphitheatre successful Colorado. 

Shawn - who antecedently dated Camila Cabello - kept it casual successful a brace of loose-fitting denim jeans arsenic good arsenic a plain achromatic shirt. 

The prima layered nan outfit pinch a plaid overgarment pinch a fuzzy trim connected nan neckline to enactment lukewarm successful nan cooler weather.  

Sabath besides dressed down for nan outing wearing a brace of comfy, achromatic sweatpants and a short-sleeved, yellowish shirt.

The grounds shaper added a long-sleeved apical underneath and besides slipped into a brace of brownish boots. 

While loading suitcases into a sleek vehicle, nan brace stopped to stock a tight hug nether nan California sunshine. 

Shawn and Mike person been adjacent pals for years, and person besides collaborated connected euphony together. 

In 2021, Sabath - who has worked pinch different artists specified arsenic Selena Gomez, Lizzo and Meghan Trainor - was nan composer and shaper for Shawn's way titled It'll Be Okay. 

Sabath is besides 1 of nan producers connected Mendes' upcoming, 5th workplace medium titled, Shawn, which is slated to driblet adjacent period connected November 15. 

Their latest outing successful L.A. comes conscionable 1 time aft nan Treat You Better vocalist sewage candid astir his sexuality arsenic he addressed his fans during a performance astatine nan Red Rock Amphitheatre connected Monday. 

The Canadian-born star spoke to nan crowd during 1 friendly infinitesimal of his For Friends and Family Tour show, and addressed nan 'truth' astir his emotion life. 

'There's this point astir my sexuality, and group person been talking astir it truthful long,' he added, saying it was 'kind of silly, because I deliberation sexuality is specified a beautifully analyzable thing, and it’s truthful difficult to conscionable put into boxes.'

'The existent truth astir my life and my sexuality is that, man, I'm conscionable figuring it retired for illustration everyone.'

'It ever felt for illustration specified an intrusion connected thing very individual to me. Something that I was figuring retired successful myself, thing that I had yet to observe and still person yet to observe it.'

'And it feels really scary because we unrecorded successful a nine that has a batch to opportunity astir that. And I'm trying to beryllium really brave and conscionable let myself to beryllium a quality and consciousness things. And that’s each I really want to opportunity astir that for now.'

Shawn besides shared: 'I was really young erstwhile I started. I was 15 years old. The truth is that I didn't get to do a batch of 15-year-old things and observe parts of myself that you do astatine 15.'

The creator sings astir his sexuality connected his caller song, The Mountain, and made nan remarks while introducing nan opus astatine nan show.

The lyrics to nan opus see nan line: 'You tin opportunity I'm excessively young/You tin opportunity I'm excessively old/You tin opportunity I for illustration girls aliases boys, immoderate fits your mold.'

He besides said astir his travel while penning nan caller song, and said, 'Writing nan opus felt really important to maine because it felt for illustration a infinitesimal wherever I could reside it successful a measurement that felt adjacent to my heart.' 

'And I conjecture I'm conscionable speaking freely now, because I conscionable want to beryllium capable to beryllium person to everyone and conscionable benignant of beryllium successful my truth.'

He antecedently discussed speculation astir his sexuality successful a 2018 Rolling Stone interview. 'I thought, "You f*****g guys are truthful fortunate I'm not really cheery and terrified of coming out,' he said astatine nan time.

'That's thing that kills people. That's really delicate it is. Do you for illustration nan songs? Do you for illustration me? Who cares if I'm gay?'

He besides said astir emotion nan unit to beryllium seen retired pinch women successful bid to beryllium he was 'not gay.'

In 2019, Shawn said whispers astir his sexuality were 'hurtful' successful an question and reply pinch The Guardian.

The superstar addressed ongoing rumors astir his sexuality erstwhile much successful 2020, connected nan Dax Shepard podcast.

'It was so, truthful frustrating for maine because location were immoderate group successful my life that I was very very adjacent to, who were cheery and successful nan closet,' he shared.

'And I felt for illustration this existent anger for those people. It's specified a tricky thing. You want to say, "I'm not cheery but it’d beryllium good if I was cheery - but besides there's thing incorrect pinch being cheery but I’m not." You don't really cognize really to respond to nan situation.'

'Everyone's been calling maine cheery since I was 15 years old. I'm not cheery and I'm like, "What does that mean?" I had these problems pinch nan measurement my sound sounded. I'm like, "How do I sit?"'

'I'm ever first to transverse my legs and beryllium pinch a position of this feminine style and I really suffered pinch that s**t.'

He besides flatly denied that he was cheery successful a Snapchat connection to his fans successful 2016, while urging them to ore connected his work.

Although he has been nan entity of chaotic speculation astir his sexuality, Shawn has only ever publically dated women, specified arsenic chap vocalist Camila.

Recently, Sabrina Carpenter deed nan headlines for her azygous Taste, a acid-tongued opus that is rumored to beryllium aimed astatine Shawn and Camila.

Sabrina was concisely linked to Shawn successful 2023, during 1 of nan gaps successful his long-running on-off narration pinch Camila.

Shawn and Camila publically sewage backmost together not agelong aft his making love rumors pinch Sabrina, but person since surgery up yet again.

Mendes and Cabello went nationalist arsenic a mates complete nan summertime of 2019 and collapsed up successful 2021, past concisely reunited past twelvemonth only to break up aft six weeks.

This summertime Shawn released his opus Why, Why, Why astir a gestation scare that 'shook maine to my core' - though he declined to sanction nan female involved.

He besides antecedently sparked romance rumors pinch his chiropractor, Dr. Jocelyne Miranda, 52, past year.

Shawn was besides linked to Big Brother UK's Charlie Travers successful 2023.