Shawn Mendes feels the need to prove his heterosexuality Now

Because social media and the press regularly suggest that Shawn Mendes is homosexual, the singer sometimes has the feeling that he has to show that it falls to women's hands.

"At the bottom of me, I feel that I have to be seen in public with a girl – a girl – to be able to prove to people that I am not homosexual," says Mendes, 20, from a conversation with Rolling Stone .

Therefore, the Treat You Better The singer often interprets his own interviews and analyzes his voice and body language. "Even though I know it's not bad to be homosexual, there's something in me that does," admits Mendes. "And that side I hate myself."

Last Christmas, Mendes was tired of all the comments on social media, when he again saw messages being accused in a negative way on YouTube regarding his alleged homosexuality. "I thought to myself: you're really lucky not to fall for men and to be terrified of getting out of the closet, it's something that can destroy people, it's just how sensitive it is.Do you like my songs?

Mendes admits to having something with Baldwin

In the interview, Mendes also admits to having something to to see with Hailey Baldwin, who is now engaged to Justin Bieber.At the beginning of this year, they appeared together at the Met Gala, after which rumors ran that the two were a couple.According to Mendes and Baldwin, it does not matter. There was only friendship.

"I can not call that a relationship," says the singer about the time spent with Baldwin. "It was rather a limbo area (an undetermined period in which a certain decision must be taken, ndlr). ".