• Shawn Mendes opened up about his sexuality during his concert in Colorado on Monday, October 28
• “Since I was very young, there has been this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it for so long,” the Canadian musician told fans, in a video shared on TikTok.
• “The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that I’m figuring it out just like everyone else,” Mendes added.

Shawn Mendes speaks openly about his sexuality.

On Monday, October 28, the 26-year-old “Mercy” singer spoke with fans between songs while performing his For Friends and Family Tour date at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.

Mendes has been performing his upcoming song “The Mountain” during his recent concerts, a song in which the singer addresses conversations about his sexuality in the lyrics.

“Some days I change my mind / You can say what you gotta say,” he sings in video footage shared on TikTok. “You can say I’m too young / You can say I’m too old / You can say I like girls or boys / Whatever suits you.”

The Canadian musician expanded on the conversation during the show in Colorado.

“Since I was very young, there has been something about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it for so long,” he told the audience, in a clip shared by a fan on TikTok. “I think it’s a bit silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to put into boxes.”

“It always felt like an intrusion into something very personal to me, something I was figuring out within myself, something I had yet to discover and have yet to discover,” the singer added, emphasizing that he “now speaks freely .” ‘, so he can be ‘closer to everyone’.

Mendes continued: “The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out, just like everyone else. Sometimes I don’t really know, and other times I do. And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that.”

“I’m trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be human and feel things. And that’s all I want to say about that for now,” says the star, who has been performing new music from his upcoming self-titled title. LP, out November 15 – continued.

Elsewhere on Monday’s show, Mendes also spoke about his dating life, insisting he wanted to take the “pressure” off of finding “The One.”

“When you’re single, there’s the pressure to look for ‘The One,’ who is ‘The One?’… Damn, that’s a lot of pressure to put on someone when you’re first dating,” he told fans, per another TikTok video.

“For me, I just tried to take that pressure off of whoever, and just let myself experience the love that’s happening in that moment, wherever and however that’s happening. Man, we all need a little hug, a little cuddling,” he added, before singing his song “In Between.”

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Mendes — who has dated Camila Cabello for years and has been publicly linked to Sabrina Carpenter in the past — previously addressed rumors about his sexuality while speaking to Dax Shepard about his Armchair expert Podcast in 2020.

“It was so frustrating for me because there were a number of people in my life that I was very close to who were gay and in the closet,” Mendes told Shepard at the time.

He continued, “And I felt a real anger for those people. It’s so difficult. You want to say, ‘I’m not gay, but it would be fine if I were gay – but there’s also nothing wrong with being gay, but I’m not.’ You don’t really know how to react to the situation.”