Shawn Mendes Announces He’s “Figuring Out” His Sexuality During Show

During a performance at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday night (October 28), Shawn Mendes shared a revealing glimpse into his personal life while opening up about his sexuality. Mendes’ intimate statement served as an introduction to the song, “The Mountain,” which fans speculate was written about the pop star’s own sexual history. “Since I was really young, there’s been this thing about my sexuality and people have been talking about it for so long,” Mendes said in a fan-captured video. The Canadian pop superstar admits that the speculation “always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me, something that I was figuring out in myself.” Mendes goes on to reveal, “The real truth about my life and about my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone. And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that.” (Variety)