Ed Sheeran gushes over friendship with Taylor Swift and says she 'truly understands him'

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Ed Sheeran has opened up on his long-standing friendship with fellow hit-maker Taylor Swift. Describing the I Knew You Were Trouble singer as one of the "only people that actually truly understands" him and where he's currently at in his career, Ed, 32, added that speaking to Taylor, 33, is like "therapy".

Speaking to Apple Music 1 frontman Zane Lowe, father-of-two Ed - who shares daughters Lyra Antarctica and Jupiter with wife Cherry Seaborn - claimed he recently spent over an hour on the phone with his fellow chart-topper. "I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she's one of the only people that actually truly understands where I'm at. "I had an hour-20 [minute] conversation with her yesterday and we were just — everything that was on our minds we talked about.

I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well, because you're actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it." He continued: "That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treat you, how your friends treat you.

She's basically in the same sphere." The Thinking Out Loud singer-songwriter also shared how his friendship with Taylor - who jointly performed the 2012 track Everything Has Changed - branches into his work, claiming she had encouraged him to collaborate with producer Aaron Dessner, who had previously worked on albums Folklore and Evermore with Taylor.