Lewis Capaldi mentioned that some celebrities were dishonest about reaching out to him after he stepped back from the public eye due to his intense struggles with Tourette’s.
The 28-year-old singer, who couldn’t complete his set at Glastonbury in 2023 because the condition flared up before a huge audience, shared that Elton John was among the first to call him following the emotional episode.
“The day after Glastonbury, Elton called and advised that taking a break was wise. I knew he had my email but didn’t realize he also had my number, so he must have gotten it from management or something,” he said.
During a conversation on Hits Radio, the Scottish musician described the Rocket Man singer, now 78, as a “really cool dude,” and also expressed appreciation for his friend Niall Horan, 31, for being supportive during the tough period.
He remarked, “Niall, of course, reached out. We’re in a group chat, so I talk to him quite a lot. But some individuals claimed they checked on me when they actually hadn’t.”
‘I can’t name and shame, but it was bizarre… really weird’.
Lewis Capaldi, 28, remarked that some celebrities falsely stated they had checked in on him after he took a step back from the limelight amid his challenging battle with Tourette’s.
The singer who was left him unable to finish his Glastonbury set in 2023, has revealed Elton John was one of the first people to phone him after the heart wrenching incident
The Glaswegian singer made his return to music with an epic and emotional performance at Glastonbury, almost two years after he broke down on the very same stage before taking a hiatus to focus on his physical and mental health.
But after taking some time away from the limelight and the ‘pressures’ of being a star, he said that he’s now ‘doing much better’ and is no longer taking the antidepressant Sertraline.
‘I’m not on antidepressants anymore,’ Lewis – who marked his return with the new track Survive which has soared to Number 1 – told fans on a livestream.
‘It was f*****g hard to get off it. You could say I survived getting off Sertraline but let’s not get into that. This is happy stuff, I’m trying to share less.’
He later added: ‘I’ve felt the best I’ve felt in a long time through therapy.
‘I think I will always be an anxious person, accepting that’s always going to be there for me is a big thing. It’s about how I respond to anxiety.’
It comes after Lewis revealed Justin Bieber ‘ghosted’ him after they spent a wild night out together at a star-studded bash.
He told Capital Breakfast’s Chris Stark that despite the pair exchanging numbers on the night, Justin, 31, failed to respond to his message the morning after.
‘The day after Glastonbury (pictured) Elton phoned and said it was wise to take a break. I knew he had my email but I didn’t know he had my number’
Speaking on Hits Radio the Scottish singer (R) branded the Rocket man, 78, a ‘really cool due’ as well as praising pal Niall Horan (L) for his support during that difficult time
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He said: ‘Niall obviously [was in contact]. We’re in a group chat so I speak to him quite a a lot. But some people said they checked in on me but did not’
He said: ‘It was amazing, there was famous people, Charli xcx was there, Justin Bieber was there.
‘Justin Bieber comes over and said ‘hey man, what’s going on?’ And I said, ‘you don’t remember my name?’ And he said, ‘of course I do, you’re Lewis Capaldi’.
‘Me and Bieber had this super night together, like really lovely evening together. We didn’t spend the night together, but we hung out and I’m like ‘me and the Biebs are gonna be best pals, this is huge’.
‘And he’s like ‘man make sure I get your number tomorrow’. And I was like ‘me and the Biebs, this is huge’.
‘I text him maybe the most sucking up his a*** text. I said, ‘Just wanted to jump on bro, last night was so special, great guy, so nice to hang out with you, such a dude’, blah blah all this stuff.
‘He likes it and doesn’t reply. So if you’re out there Bieber, wherever you are, text me back please. Bieber aired me.’
Elsewhere, in Lewis’ first radio interview in two years, the hitmaker touched on his career hiatus.
It comes after Lewis revealed Justin Bieber ‘ghosted’ him after they spent a wild night out together at a star-studded bash (pictured together in 2020)
‘I’ve done a lot of growing up in the last year an a bit’, he told Chris as they caught up over a pint of Guinness at London’s The Devonshire.
He said: ‘Weirdly, I felt like the last two years I’ve had off, I was getting better but I was also kind of having my uni experience. Because I went and toured while everyone was at uni.
‘There’s times where I kicked the a*** out of it. Like going out and having nights in here and nights out in London, because I moved to London as well and I was getting to grips with that and stuff.’
Lewis’ comeback tour sold out in seconds last month, with disappointed fans furious at Ticketmaster for ‘freezing as they reached the front of the queue’.
His dedicated fans had every single ticket in their baskets by one second past 9am, Lewis revealed, so the star added extra dates – but even those shows sold out in record time, with the tour being his ‘fastest selling ever’.
