He's on a journey of self discovery!
Shawn Mendes has revealed he's still "figuring out" his sexuality in emotional speech.
During his For Friends and Family Tour at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado the 26-year-old reflected on his sexuality and said: "I was really young when I started. I was 15 years old,"
"The truth is that I didn’t get to do a lot of 15-year-old things and discover parts of myself that you do at 15."
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"Since I was really young, there’s this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it so long. I think it’s kind of silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to just put into boxes," he continued.
"It always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me. Something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover it,"
"Writing the song felt really important to me because it felt like a moment where I could address it in a way that felt close to my heart. And I guess I’m just speaking freely now, because I just want to be able to be closer to everyone and just kind of be in my truth."
Credit: Sipa USA/Alamy Live News"The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone. And I don’t really know sometimes and I know other times. And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that. And I’m trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things. And that’s all I really want to say about that for now."
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