Ed Sheeran Hit Justin Bieber With A Golf Club In Japan, ‘Divide’ Singer Admits In Candid Interview

Boy will be boys? “Divide” singer Ed Sheeran admitted he hit Canadian singer Justin Bieber in the face with a golf club after drinking. While it might seem like the two were in a feud, they were just clowning around. In fact, it was the “Love Yourself” singer who dared Sheeran to hit a golf ball out of his mouth.

“We were in Japan,” Sheeran told The Guardian in a Wednesday interview, not mentioning when the incident originally happened. “We’d been out to a dive bar. He just drank water and I got hammered. Then we went to a golf course, and he lay on the floor and put a golf ball in his mouth and told me to hit it out of his mouth. I was like, ‘f---‘, I need to aim this properly,’ and I swung.”

It wasn’t just a little hit. Sheeran recalled the noise. “You know in films when someone gets punched, and you hear that fake sound, like a slap? But in real life when someone gets punched, you hear that dull thud, a bit sickening? I heard a sound like the last one,” the English singer said.

“I’d cracked Justin Bieber right in the cheek with a golf club,” Sheeran added. “That was one of those ‘What the f---?’ moments.”

While Bieber's security guard was horrified, the two are still friends though. Sheeran even wrote the lyrics for Beiber’s hit, “Love Yourself.” In fact, the singer wrote songs for stars like Robbie Williams and The Weekend.

Sheeran, 25, was confident his new record would do well, saying 2017 was his year. “I don’t think I’ll have a year like this again,” he said.

“Divide” is slated to be released Wednesday. It’s his third album.

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