Ed Sheeran Confirms He Dug His Own Grave In The Backyard: ‘People Think It’s Really… Morbid’

Singer Ed Sheeran is extremely prepared for the end of his life, but admits that some people find his methods “morbid.”

The 32-year-old British singer-songwriter confirmed a rumor about him having a burial spot ready to go in his backyard. “I wouldn’t say it’s a crypt,” Sheeran told GQ Hype in an interview published on October 5.

The “Thinking Out Loud” singer described a chapel he had built where he can reflect on friends and family who have died. He also hosts weddings there. But Sheeran said while the structure was being built, he found it so beautiful that he decided to make it into a pre-planned resting place for himself.

“It’s a hole that’s dug in the ground with a bit of stone over it, so whenever the day comes and I pass away, I get to go in there,” he told the outlet. “People think it’s really weird and really morbid, but I’ve had friends die without wills, and no one knows what to do.”

Sheeran has experienced a lot of tragedy in his life which could lead him to face his own mortality. The performing artist’s mentor Michael Gudinski died at age 68 in 2021. The next year, Sheeran’s best friend Jamal Edwards died when he was only 31. His close friend Shane Warne passed away just a few weeks later.

The “Perfect” singer discussed his mental health and how it affected his musical career. “I had been working on Subtract for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be. Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art,” he posted to Instagram in March.

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“Writing songs is my therapy. It helps me make sense of my feelings. I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out. And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts,” Sheeran continued. “Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumor, with no route to treatment until after the birth.”

“My best friend Jamal, a brother to me, died suddenly and I found myself standing in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter. I was spiraling through fear, depression and anxiety,” he went on. “I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not being able to break through for air.”

He went on to explain how his new album “Subtract” was an “honest and true” look at his adult life.