Ed Sheeran has confirmed that his wife Cherry Seaborn is fully recovered from cancer and described her diagnosis in 2022 as “probably the worst day” of his life, a period in which he was simultaneously mourning two close friends and fighting 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 the operation.”
Cherry was pregnant with her second daughter, Jupiter, now 3, at the time of her diagnosis, which significantly complicated her treatment.
“She underwent surgery to remove the tumor after giving birth to our second child. Luckily, knock on wood, she’s totally fine,” Sheeran added.
The couple also shares 5-year-old daughter Lyra.
Sheeran first spoke publicly about Cherry’s diagnosis in his 2023 Disney+ documentary. Ed Sheeran: the sum of everythingbut on the podcast he talked about how bleak that particular week had been.
“The day Cherry called me and told me she had cancer, that was probably the worst day. Probably the worst week, because Jamal also died that week and then we went straight to the court case. And then Shane died.”
The deaths he referenced were those of his close friend and music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards and cricket legend Shane Warne, who died in 2022.
The court case was the long-running copyright infringement lawsuit over his song “Shape of You”, which he finally won after eight years.
Surprisingly, he says the weight of everything that happened in his personal life actually diminished the importance of the court battle at the time.
“It was very scary. But being in the court case, where everything was in the works for eight years. And then all of a sudden, when you’re in the courtroom, it didn’t really matter. And because all the heavy things in life happened, when I was in the courtroom I thought, ‘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 much it keeps him grounded amid the pressures of global fame. “The cherry is the greatest fundamental force,” he said in calls his daddy in April.
