Ed Sheeran Says He and Taylor Swift Share the Same “Insecurities”: “[She] Genuinely Gets It”

For their first live performance together, the two hit the stage in New York City at Z100’s Jingle Ball, held at Madison Square Garden.

After realizing how well they work together and how much they enjoy each other’s company, Swift to invite Sheeran out on her “Red” tour. He joined her on stage from time to time, including when he dressed up as a clown at the closing show in Nashville.

With their friendship in full swing, Swift and Sheeran hung out at industry events and often championed each other’s work. They posed for photos at the 2014 Grammys, among other events.

When Swift took her “Red” tour overseas, she picked up a different opening act – but that didn’t stop best buddy Sheeran from popping into the London show to duet with his pal.

At the end of 2014, both Swift and Sheeran were tapped to perform at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which was held in London that year.

Swift may have wiped her Instagram clean of the epic photos from her famous 2015 Fourth of July party, but they still live elsewhere on the internet. Sheeran showed up at her party, and at the time, Swift shared this photo with the caption “When Ed shows up in a red coat for the 4th of July because he just can’t let it go,” according to People.

The two made a cute pair at the 2016 Grammy Awards, where both took home a couple of new trophies.

In a clip from Sheeran’s interview with Zane Lowe shared by People on May 4, Sheeran opened up about how supportive his relationship with Swift is to this day. “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,” he said. “I had an hour-20 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. 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.”

He also shared that Swift had encouraged him to work with her “Folklore” collaborator Aaron Dessner. “I’m always – not guarded, but I kind of would keep my distance if there would be a collaborator that she’d be working with closely just because that’s her thing. And I don’t want to be like, ‘Well going to do that too,'” he said. “But she was like, ‘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.'”