Shawn Mendes says he’s still ‘figuring out’ his sexuality: ‘It feels really scary’

There’s thing holding Shawn Mendes backmost from getting candid.

On Monday, nan singer, 26, addressed nan crowd successful betwixt songs while connected his For Friends and Family Tour astatine his extremity astatine nan Red Rocks Amphitheatre successful Colorado.

During his caller concerts, Mendes has been performing an upcoming way “The Mountain” pinch lyrics seemingly weighing successful connected conversations astir his sexuality.

“Some days, I person a alteration of bosom / You tin opportunity what you request to say,” he belted retired successful footage shared to TikTok. “You tin opportunity I’m excessively young / You tin opportunity I’m excessively aged / You tin opportunity I for illustration girls aliases boys / Whatever fits your mold.”

Mendes past elaborated connected nan speech during nan show.

“Since I was really young, there’s been this point astir my sexuality, and group person been talking astir it for truthful long,” he told nan crowd, via a clip shared by a instrumentality on TikTok. “I deliberation it’s benignant of silly, because I deliberation sexuality is specified a beautifully analyzable thing, and it’s truthful difficult to conscionable put into boxes.”

“It ever felt for illustration specified an intrusion connected thing very individual to me, thing that I was figuring retired successful myself, thing that I had yet to discover, and still person yet to discover,” nan musician continued, adding he’s “speaking freely now” truthful he tin beryllium “closer to everyone.”

“The existent truth astir my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m conscionable figuring it retired for illustration everyone. I don’t really cognize sometimes, and I cognize different times. And it feels really scary because we unrecorded successful a nine that has a batch to opportunity astir that.” 

“I’m trying to beryllium really brave and conscionable let myself to beryllium a quality and consciousness things. And that’s each I really want to opportunity astir that for now,” Mendes noted.

Mendes besides said astir his making love life, telling nan assemblage that these days, he wants nan “pressure” disconnected pinch uncovering “The One.”

“When you’re single, there’s this unit of looking for ‘The One,’ who’s ‘The One?’… Damn that’s a batch of unit to put connected personification erstwhile you first commencement dating,” he told fans, per a video shared on TikTok.

“For me, I’ve conscionable been trying to return that unit disconnected of whoever, and conscionable let myself to acquisition nan emotion that is happening successful that moment, wherever and nevertheless that’s happening. Man, we each request a small spot of cuddling, a small spot of hugging,” Mendes added, earlier launching into his adjacent opus “In Between.”

Mendes dated Camila Cabello connected and disconnected since 2019, and was antecedently linked to Hailey Bieber and Sabrina Carpenter. In 2020, nan star discussed rumors astir his sexuality while speaking to Dax Shepard on his “Armchair Expert” podcast.

“It was so, truthful frustrating for maine because location were immoderate group successful my life that I was very, very adjacent to, who were cheery and successful nan closet,” Mendes told Shepard, 49, astatine nan time.

He continued, “And I felt for illustration this existent anger for those people. It’s specified a tricky thing. You want to say, ‘I’m not gay, but it’d beryllium good if I was cheery – but besides there’s thing incorrect pinch being gay, but I’m not.’ You don’t really cognize really to respond to nan situation.”

His upcoming self-titled LP comes retired Nov. 15.