During Call Her Daddy, the singer-songwriter reflected on the time he spent opening on the Red tour and shared a rare glimpse into his friendship with the pop superstar
When Taylor Swift stopped in London on the Eras Tour last year, she surprised one night’s audience with a special appearance from Ed Sheeran. The pair performed a medley of “Everything Has Changed,” “End Game,” and “Thinking Out Loud” at Wembley Stadium. It was a full-circle moment that called back to when they would perform “Everything Has Changed” together on the 2013 Red tour, where he spent six months on the road with her. Now that they’re both stadium-headlining artists, Sheeran looks back on those days fondly.
“I literally spent almost every single day with her for about six months,” Sheeran said during his recent appearance on Call Her Daddy. A flood of memories from that time came back to him while he was involved in two separate lawsuits in recent years that required him to hand his old devices over to the involved lawyers. “Going through all my old texts with people that I’ve known for that long, it was really like nostalgic going through,” he said. “I think that the period of time that I was on the Red tour would have been, I lived in Nashville and she lived in Nashville and we used to fly to and from the gigs together.”
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Sheeran and Swift’s paths cross more sporadically now, but it doesn’t feel like everything has changed when they do. “I see her when I see her,” he said. “I probably see her like four times a year and we do what I said, like instead of catching up the whole time, we have like proper sit down, six hour catch ups. And I think that that’s like a really nice way to do it.”
Sheeran rarely speaks about his friendship with Swift, but she carries these memories in a similar way. When she introduced him to the Wembley Stadium audience, she said: “This is one of my best friends in the world, to the point where I feel like he’s a second brother. We toured together on the Red tour. Every time I’m doing the Red part of the show, I think about the memories that we’ve made. And now he is someone who plays Wembley like every week. This is regular for him. He works so hard and he’s on tour right now, and he’s probably so tired, but he wanted to come and play for you and do this for all of us. Give it up for Ed Sheeran.”
