Ed Sheeran Speaks Out On Friendship With Taylor Swift After Learning She Was Engaged On Instagram

Ed Sheeran is setting the record straight on the state of his relationship with Taylor Swift.

In October, Swift, 35, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and admitted she forgot to tell Sheeran, 34, that Travis Kelce had proposed because the “Shape of You” singer doesn’t have a phone.

On Friday, November 28, Sheeran sat down for an interview with Access Hollywood and made it clear that despite learning Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35 got engaged via Instagram, he and the pop star are still besties.

“My way of viewing it is like, me and Taylor are mates, and I will see her. And I saw her a week after that happened, so I did that interview, and then I saw her, and you talk in person,” he remarked. “I kind of feel like being in touch with like everyone, sort of you lose actual human connection.”

Sheeran also revealed that when he saw the “Cruel Summer” hitmaker, they “had like a four-hour catch-up.”

“I’m not self-conscious about my relationship with her,” he continued. “We’ve been friends for very, very many years. We’re super close, and we see each other when we see each other, and when we see each other, we lock back into where we left off.”

During her late-night appearance, Swift — who announced her engagement in August — explained that getting in touch with Sheeran is no easy task.

“You have to e-mail him. And then if you want to set up a FaceTime, he has to find an iPad. They have to give it to him like he’s a child that they give the iPad to,” she joked. “This is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet. And then when the news came out, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, we forgot to call Ed! Oh, no.'”