Ed Sheeran reveals shocking way he found out about good friend Shane Warne’s death: ‘I haven’t been able to process or grieve’

metro.co.uk:

Ed Sheeran revealed he was told about his longtime friend Shane Warne’s death by paparazzi who flagged him down in the street.

The Bad Habits singer, 31, had been leaving court where he is fighting to prove he did not copy the song Oh Why by Sami Chokri and his co-author Ross O’Donoghue, when he was questioned about Warne’s death by a paparazzo.

Sheeran told Hit Network’s Carrie & Tommy that that was the moment he found out the cricket legend had died suddenly at the age of 52.He explained: ‘It’s been a weird month, I lost my best friend Jamal [Edwards] at the end of February and then I know I can’t talk about it but I started this thing that’s been heavily publicised that I’m going in [to court for] every day. ‘I came out of court on the first day to a paparazzi saying, “Hey, what do you think of your friend Shane dying?”‘It’s just a very, very weird time.

I feel I haven’t quite been able to process or grieve anything… It’s really, really sad.’Sheeran added: ‘I love Shane and I have an amazing last memory of me and him at a Coldplay gig together and I’m grateful for all the memories I do have and I’m sad about all the memories I won’t make any more.’Explaining how he met Warne, Sheeran previously told The Project: ‘We met in 2014, when I was doing the Logies.