Ed Sheeran says rapping Eminem 'cured' his stutter caused by procedure he had done as kid

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Ed Sheeran is thankful for Eminem. Sheeran was a guest on "The Howard Stern Show" and opened up about how rapping Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP" when he was 9 years old helped "cure" his stutter.

Stern explained that Sheeran had surgery to "burn" a birthmark off his face, noting that the doctors "by accident" didn't give Sheeran anesthesia. "And they literally hurt you so bad when they were trying to burn this thing off that it caused you to stutter," Stern said.

Sheeran responded by saying he thinks the procedure affected his nervous system and led to the stutter. "I was going through all sorts of speech therapy," Sheeran, 32, told Stern last week. "When I was 9, my uncle bought me ‘The Marshall Mathers LP.’ He just said to my dad, 'This guy's the next Bob Dylan.' My dad didn't really clock it, he's just like, 'OK, Edward's going to go and listen to that.'" "And by learning that record and by rapping it back to back, to back, to back, it cured my stutter," the musician said. "And I stopped ...

talking like that." Sheeran – who is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter – has since collaborated with Eminem.The pair worked together on Sheeran's "Remember the Name" and Eminem's "River" and "Those Kinda Nights." In 2022, Sheeran attended Eminem's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony and joined him onstage for a performance of "Stan." "Years later, I've made songs with Eminem now, and we've gotten to know each other quite well," Sheeran told Stern. "And he asked me to play 'Stan' with him at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.