It might be easy to forget that, despite their money and prominence, celebrities are just like the rest of us. They share the same thrills and sufferings, heartaches, shocks, and difficult times of life.
The next time we grasp onto rumors without supporting proof or act on sensational headlines, we might do well to remember that. Celebrities, like everyone else, go through ups and downs.
You don’t believe we are real? Take, for example, Ed Sheeran, whose wife was diagnosed with cancer last year while they were expecting their second child.
Ed Sheeran is widely considered as one of the most successful musicians of his generation on a global scale, yet he has struggled with anxiety in recent years.
He met his wife Cherry Seaborn in 2015, and they are supposed to be married since 2019.
However, when Cherry discovered she had cancer while pregnant last year, their entire world fell apart. Sheeran’s deadliest friend died within the same month, exacerbating his anguish.
Ed Sheeran clarified in an interview for his Disney+ documentary series Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All: “Cherry’s health was pretty awful, and then all of a sudden, my best friend Jamal dies.
“You guys asked whether anyone would like to produce a documentary. “Yeah, I should be in the studio and we’ll play the gig,” I said.
“The documentary is not that.”
Then, as Sheeran rides in the back of a car, the camera pans to him, crying uncontrollably.
During the sixth month of her pregnancy, doctors found a tumor in Cherry, Sheeran’s wife, which she disclosed in the same documentary.
“I was given a cancer diagnosis at the beginning of the year,” she remarked. It caused me to seriously consider our mortality. Although I would never consent to do anything of the such, it got me to thinking: “Well, what would people think of me if I died?” What is it that you leave behind?
“For Ed, the whole idea is he wants to tell people, ‘I’m not just this music machine,’” she went on. I’m not just this automaton that vies for the top spot. I am a friend, a father, and a son. I didn’t start thinking that I might die until this year.
After months of apprehension, Cherry successfully gave birth to their second child, a boy. Soon after, she underwent successful surgery to remove the tumor in her arm.
Ed Sheeran’s fear must have been excruciating when he discovered his pregnant wife had a tumour. Thank goodness, everything turned out great.
