Ed Sheeran wrote seven songs in four hours after wife Cherry was diagnosed with cancer

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Ed Sheeran penned seven songs in just four hours after learning his wife, Cherry Seaborn, had been diagnosed with cancer.The couple, who have known each other since they were just 11, got together in 2015 and were married four years later and enjoying marital bliss every day - until February, 2022 when Cherry was told by medics that she had a tumour that needed urgent treatment.

She was six months pregnant with the couple's second child and the gruelling diagnosis also came around the same time as the death of Ed's close friend Jamal Edwards and while he was wrapped up in an intense court battle over his hit song Shape of You.

Opening up about the tumultuous time in the trailer for Ed's upcoming documentary The Sum of It All, which will be released exclusively on Disney+ on Wednesday 3 May ahead of his new album Subtract being released on Friday 5 May, Cherry recalled that her husband "went down into the basement" after hearing about her diagnosis and immediately wrote a collection of songs as he tried to process the news and manage his emotions. "We had the diagnosis of the tumour and the next day Eds went down into the basement and wrote seven songs in four hours.

Some people write a diary and get their emotions out through the pen and for Eds, if something really intense happens, he'll go and write a song," she said.