Ed Sheeran’s “pretty gnarly” bout of COVID made him sleep through album launch

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Ed Sheeran says he slept through his own album launch due to a “pretty gnarly” bout of COVID.The singer’s new album ‘=’ came out on Friday (October 29), a week after he announced that he’d tested positive for the virus, meaning that all his planned promotional appearances around the album’s release would happen from home.Speaking to Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2, Sheeran said that he believes he’s “getting to the other side” of the illness but that it’s affected his workload.“The beginning of the week was pretty gnarly but I just drunk a lot of water and slept a lot and had all the vitamins that the doctor told me to have,” he said.“But yeah, it’s the first time I didn’t stay up for an album release.