Shawn Mendes was left lost and angry when trolls online determined he was gay and he should come out of the closet.The In My Blood singer is not gay but couldn’t find the right words to express his feelings without hurting his homosexual and bisexual friends.“It was so frustrating for me because there were some people in my life that I was very very close to, who were gay and in the closet,” Shawn tells Dax Shepard on the latest episode of his Armchair Expert podcast. “I felt like this real anger for those people.“It’s such a tricky thing.
You want to say, ‘I’m not gay but it’d be fine if I was gay – but also there’s nothing wrong with being gay but I’m not’. You don’t really know how to respond to the situation.”That was one of the few.