From his sextuple platinum album Plus (+) to his Spotify record-breaking album Divide (÷), Ed Sheeran has continued to mesmerize us with his one-of-a-kind melodies paired with lyrically perfect execution. With the raving success that Sheeran has seen in recent years, selling out worldwide concerts within minutes and gaining groupies by the millions, it’s hard to imagine a time when he wasn’t the world’s favorite little Gingerbread Man.
But the multi-platinum singer portrayed his beginnings in quite a different light at the “American Institute for Stuttering’s Freeing Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala.”
As if one “very” wasn’t enough, Sheeran opened in saying, “I was a very, very, very weird child.”
“I had a port-wine stain birthmark on my face that I got lasered off when I was very young; one day, they forgot to put the anesthetic on, and ever since then, I had a stutter. I also had very big, blue NHS glasses.”
He of ALL people knows what it feels like to be different from the rest.