The singer smoked marijuana backstage “just to prove I smoked with Snoop Dogg.”
Smoking marijuana backstage with Snoop Dogg? Sounds like an absurd fantasy. But that’s exactly what Ed Sheeran experienced in Melbourne, Australia, after one of the rapper’s concerts. The “Shape of You” singer confides this to the comedian and presenter of the same name on October 2nd in the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend”.
Sheeran attended the show in March 2023 alongside his wife Cherry Seaborn and his mother-in-law. Thanks to their mutual friend, the actor and director Russell Crowe, he was then allowed backstage to meet Snoop Dogg, the musician said in an interview.
“I don’t actually smoke at all. I was in the locker room and they just [geraucht], stub after stub after stub after stub. “I figured I’d have to do it at some point in the night just to say I smoked with Snoop Dogg,” the musician tells Conan O’Brien. The artists were said to be engaged in a good conversation before the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper offered his guest something to smoke.
“He said, ‘Do you want something?’ and I said, ‘Now is the time. We had a good conversation. So I took a little bit and thought, ‘I don’t feel so bad, that’s good. Then I took a little more, and then I took a little more, and then I took a little more,” the British singer-songwriter recalls. “All I remember is that I looked at him and said: I can’t see anything right now.”
Ed Sheeran already provided insight into the extent of his previous drug use in his Disney Plus documentary series “The Sum of it All”. The singer started using drugs after seeing his friends do it. He doesn’t mention exactly what drugs they are talking about. “And then [habe ich] tried it somehow. And then it became a habit that you do once a week and then once a day and then twice a day and then without alcohol. “It just created bad vibes,” Sheeran tells Rolling Stone.
On September 29th, Ed Sheeran released his latest album AUTUMN VARIATIONS. The record’s 14 new tracks are inspired by autumn. In November, the singer will perform his full-length work at two sold-out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London.