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Culture October 29, 2024

Shawn Mendes addresses his sexuality: 'Just figuring it out like everyone'

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Shawn Mendes opened up about his sexuality during a recent concert, saying he's "just figuring it out like everyone."

The "Treat You Better" singer, 26, made the comments at his Oct. 28 concert in Colorado.

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Addressing his early start in the music industry, Mendes said "the truth is that I didn't get to kind of do a lot of 15-year-old things and discover parts of myself that you do at 15."

PHOTO: Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in the Rio 2016 Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 23, 2024.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in the Rio 2016 Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 23, 2024.

"Since I was really young, there's just been this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it for so long," he continued. "And I think it's kind of silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it's so hard to just put into boxes."

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Mendes went on to say that such speculation "always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me, something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover."

PHOTO: Shawn Mendes attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York.
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Shawn Mendes attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York.

"The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I'm just figuring it out like everyone, and I don't really know sometimes, and I know other times," he said, adding that he's "trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things."

"That's all I really wanna say about that for now," Mendes concluded.

Mendes' new album, "Shawn," drops Nov. 15.