Ed Sheeran has confirmed that his wife Cherry Seaborn has made a full recovery from cancer, describing her diagnosis in 2022 as “probably the worst day” of his life, a period in which he was simultaneously mourning two close friends and battling a high-profile copyright lawsuit.
The singer shared the update on the March 10 episode of Friends keep secrets podcast with Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky and Kristin Batalucco.
“She’s fine,” he said simply. “She had surgery.”
Cherry was pregnant with their second daughter Jupiter, now 3, at the time of her diagnosis, which significantly complicated her treatment.
“She had surgery to remove the tumor after giving birth to our second child. Luckily, touch wood, everything is fine,” Sheeran added.
The couple also share daughter Lyra, 5.
Sheeran first spoke publicly about Cherry’s diagnosis in his 2023 Disney+ documentary Ed Sheeran: The Sum of Allbut on the podcast he talked about how dark this particular week had been.
“The day Cherry called me and told me she had cancer was probably the worst day. Probably the worst week, because Jamal also died that week and we went straight to court. And then Shane died.”
The deaths he referred to were those of his close friend and music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards and cricket legend Shane Warne, both of whom died in 2022.
The lawsuit was a long-running copyright infringement lawsuit regarding his song “Shape of You”, which he ultimately won after eight years.
Remarkably, he says the weight of everything going on in his personal life actually diminished the importance of the legal battle in the moment.
“It was really scary. However, being in the trial, and everything was building for eight years. And then all of a sudden, when you’re in the courtroom, it didn’t really matter. And because all the hard things in life happened, when I was in the courtroom, I was like, ‘I don’t really care about the outcome of this, because it’s so small.'”
Sheeran, who married Cherry in 2019, has previously spoken about how she keeps him going amid the pressures of world fame. “Cherry is the biggest anchoring force,” he said. Call her daddy in April.
