Shawn Mendes reveals 'truth' about sexuality in candid concert speech amid gay rumors

Shawn Mendes sewage candid astir his sexuality during his Colorado performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre connected Monday.

The Canadian hitmaker, 26, said to nan crowd during 1 friendly infinitesimal of his For Friends and Family Tour show, and addressed nan 'truth' astir his emotion life.

Telling his fans he was trying to beryllium 'really brave', nan vocalist — who famously dated Camila Cabello — revealed he was still 'figuring it out.'

'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 on his caller song, The Mountain. 

He 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.

'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,' he said.

'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 nan backmost of my heart, I consciousness for illustration I request to spell beryllium seen pinch personification — for illustration a woman — successful public, to beryllium to group that I’m not gay. Even though successful my bosom I cognize that it’s not a bad thing. There’s still a portion of maine that thinks that. And I dislike that broadside of me.'

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.

'So I don't usually do this and bring up problems, but I was connected YouTube conscionable watching immoderate of my interviews, and I was going down nan comments and noticed a batch of group were saying that I gave them a "gay vibe,"' he said.

'First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a quality if I was aliases if I wasn't. The attraction should beryllium connected nan euphony and not my sexuality.'

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.

Shawn and Camila 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.

'I thought I was astir to beryllium a begetter - shook maine to nan core. I’m still a kid,' he sings successful nan bridge. 'Sometimes I still outcry retired for my mother.'

Earlier connected nan song, he confesses nan regrets he still harbors astir nan extremity of a narration pinch a female he ne'er identifies by name.

'Sweatin' done nan sheets, shakin' successful bed, visions of her naked successful my head, but I went disconnected and chose myself instead. Why, why, why? Ease my mind,' he croons.

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.