Ed Sheeran was honoured on Monday night at the American Institute for Stuttering’s Free Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala and in his speech the British singer revealed it was Eminem’s music that taught him to overcome his stutter.
“My dad bought me The Marshall Mathers LP when I was 9-years-old, not knowing what was on it. I learned every word, back to front, by the time I was 10,” the Thinking Out Loud singer told the audience.
He then added: “He [Eminem] raps very fast and melodically and percussively, and it helped me get rid of my stutter.”
Despite triumphing over his speech impediment, the 24-year-old said he is not embarrassed about it.
“Embrace your quirks, being weird is a wonderful thing,” the songwriter explained, before adding: “Stuttering is not a thing you have to be worried about at all. Even if you have quirks and weirdness, you shouldn’t be worried about that.”
Taylor Swift’s BFF then quipped to the crowd: “The people I went to school with that were the most normal and were the coolest when we grew up — I was telling Emily [Blunt] earlier that one of the cool kids from school now does my plumbing! That’s a fact!”
Finally the talented musician offered some advice: “There’s no one in the world that can be a better you than you.”
If we weren’t already, we are most certainly now officially obsessed with Ed Sheeran.
