In a chat on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Ed Sheeran revealed to host Alex Cooper his most mortifying drunk experience.
Around the 23:50 mark, Sheeran shared a never-before-told story from his touring days. “I was playing a city in Europe—[it] was like 2018, 2019—and my best mate was out with his mum and his sister,” he explained, mentioning they were drinking coffee tequila liqueur. “Then I went to bed and I got up in the middle of the night to have a pee and I was sleeping naked. I walked out to have a pee, and then I heard a door close. … I’m in the corridor naked, no key.”
This happened around 4 a.m., and he immediately started freaking out as he realized his situation, half-asleep and completely nude. He spotted several security cameras nearby and realized just how bad things were.
“There was like room service, someone that had room service, and I went to get the napkin,” he said, noting the napkin was his only coverage. “Napkin on, click the lift, went down to the lobby. …. I walked with this thing and I was like, ‘Please can you let me back in my room and please can you not tell anyone about this?’ My security guard went to go wipe all the… well he told me he wiped it. He might have kept it for blackmail later on down the line. But yeah, I think that was the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever done.”
Sheeran mentioned seeing the hotel staff’s eyes go wide as he approached them with just his napkin. “I went back to bed,” he said. “Because I was like, nothing’s gonna change the fact that that just happened. I message my security guard, was like, ‘Please, can you you wipe the footage?’ … It’s a very human mistake.”
After this incident, he wisely stopped sleeping naked and bought pajamas. “I’m sober at the moment so that’s definitely like helping [stop me from] doing stupid shit,” he laughed.
Later in the interview, when asked if he’s ever been approached for a Super Bowl halftime show, he mentioned there was “a conversation” about it roughly ten years ago for a potential collaboration with someone he didn’t identify.
The full interview with Sheeran is available to watch online.
