Ed Sheeran has confirmed that his wife Cherry Seaborn is fully recovered from cancer, describing her diagnosis in 2022 as “probably the worst day” of his life, a time when he was simultaneously grieving two close friends and fighting a high-profile copyright case.
The singer shared the update about the episode on March 10 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 she gave birth to our second child. Luckily, touch wood, absolutely 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 It Allbut on the podcast he opened up about how bleak the week in question had been.
“The day Cherry called me and said she had cancer was probably the worst day. Probably the worst week because Jamal died that week too and then we went straight to trial. And then Shane died.”
The deaths he was referring to were his close friend and music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards and cricket legend Shane Warne, who both died in 2022.
The lawsuit was the long-running copyright infringement lawsuit over his song “Shape of You,” which he ultimately won after eight years.
Remarkably, he says that the weight of everything happening in his personal life actually lessened the importance of the courtroom at the moment.
“It was f–king scary. But being in the trial that everything was building up to for eight years. And then suddenly when you’re in the courtroom, it didn’t matter. And because all the heavy things in life happened when I was in the courtroom, I thought, ‘I actually don’t care about the outcome of this because it’s so small.'”
Sheeran, who married Cherry in 2019, has previously spoken about how much she keeps him grounded amid the pressures of global fame. “Cherry is the biggest grounder,” he went on to say Call her dad in April.
