Shawn Mendes alluded to the love triangle rumors involving him, Sabrina Carpenter and his ex Camila Cabello in a new interview.
The Stitches hitmaker, 26, appeared in a preview clip for an episode of John Mayer’s upcoming SiriusXM show, How’s Life, set to be released on Thursday.
In the clip, the Canadian crooner — who recently admitted he was still ‘figuring out’ his sexuality — referenced a past love triangle and expressed regret over how he handled it.
‘Two days before going to hang with my ex, [I] express I’m going to hang with my ex because I have unresolved feelings,’ he told Mayer.
‘Maybe instead of two days it could have been two weeks,’ Shawn — who previously also spoke about feeling the pressure to be seen out with women in order to prove he was ‘not gay’ — added.
He also named the ‘biggest lesson’ he’s learned, telling Mayer, ‘no one gets out of this life without getting hurt, and no one gets out of this life without hurting someone.’
Shawn Mendes, 26, alluded to the love triangle rumors involving him, Sabrina Carpenter, 25, and his ex Camila Cabello, 27, in a new interview
He expressed regret over how he handled a past love triangle in a preview clip for an episode of John Mayer’s SiriusXM show, How’s Life; (L) Camila seen December 6, (R) Sabrina seen October 9
Fans quickly connected the dots to the rumored love triangle, and interpreted his comments to be about his pop star exes.
In early 2023 he was rumored to be dating Espresso hitmaker Sabrina, 25, though he denied the pair were in a relationship.
During this time he was spotted rekindling his romance with ex Camila, 27.
None of them have addressed the love triangle, though many fans believe Sabrina hinted at it in her song ‘Taste.’
In the track — which she also performed in front of Camila and Shawn at the 2024 MTV VMAs — she sings: ‘I heard you’re back together and if that’s true / You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissin’ you / If you want forever, I bet you do / Just know you’ll taste me too.’
‘Every time you close your eyes/ And feel his lips, you’re feelin’ mine/ And every time you breathe his air/ Just know I was already there.’
In September 2024, Cabello sparked speculation that she was making a dig at Carpenter during her iHeartRadio Music Festival performance of her and ex Mendes’ song Señorita.
‘You say we’re just friends/But friends don’t know the way you…’ she sang then paused the song before the lyric ‘taste,’ and instead put a finger to her lips with a knowing look.
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‘Two days before going to hang with my ex, [I] express I’m going to hang with my ex because I have unresolved feelings,’ he told Mayer
‘Maybe instead of two days it could have been two weeks,’ Shawn added
He also named the ‘biggest lesson’ he’s learned, telling Mayer, ‘no one gets out of this life without getting hurt, and no one gets out of this life without hurting someone’
In early 2023 he was rumored to be dating Espresso hitmaker Sabrina. During this time he was spotted rekindling his romance with ex Camila; seen with Camila in 2021
Many fans believe Sabrina hinted at the triangle in her song ‘Taste’, where she sings: ‘I heard you’re back together and if that’s true / You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissin’ you’
Camila did not name Shawn or Sabrina on her album C, XOXO but she did write a number of songs about him – with Sabrina also referred to in the song June Gloom.
In the song, Camila – who wrote all the songs on the album – sings about their on/off relationship: ‘Is this gonna ever end? / I guess I’ll f**k around and find out.’
She alludes to Sabrina with the lyric: ‘She’s cool, I heard/ Won’t act surprised I saw the pictures,’ before asking a very sexually explicit question about her.
Camila released her album C, XOXO on June 28, 2024.
Soon after, Sabrina released a cheeky song about Camila and Shawn called Taste, released on her new album Short n’ Sweet on August 23, 2024.
Cabello and Mendes initially dated from 2019 until their break-up in 2021. They then rekindled their romance in April 2023 after reuniting at Coachella, until they split again in June 2023.
Shawn was linked to Sabrina from January 2023 to April 2023.
Following their second split, Cabello shared on the Call Her Daddy podcast in March: ‘You’re just kind of like, it’s not a fit, it doesn’t feel right.’
‘And I think, luckily, I was in a place in my life where it took me less time to realize that. It took us both less time to be like, “This doesn’t feel right and we don’t need to try so hard to make it work. It’s all good.”‘
Cabello and Mendes initially dated from 2019 until their break-up in 2021. They then rekindled their romance in April 2023 after reuniting at Coachella, until they split again in June 2023; seen in 2019
Meanwhile Sabrina recently split from Irish actor Barry Keoghan, amid swirling rumors that he cheated on her with OnlyFans star Breckie Hill; the pair seen in May at the Met Gala in NYC
She added, ‘I will always care about him and love him. He’s such a good person, and I’m lucky because some people have exes that are awful, and he is not. He’s a really kind, good person.’
Shawn, Camila and Sabrina are all seemingly single at the moment.
Sabrina recently split from Irish actor Barry Keoghan, amid swirling rumors that he cheated on her with OnlyFans star Breckie Hill.
Meanwhile Camila and entrepreneur Austin Kevitch broke up in early 2024, after about eight months of dating.
Shawn is also single, and recently got candid about his sexuality during his Colorado concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in October.
‘There’s this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it so long,’ he shared, saying it was ‘kind of silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to just put into boxes.’
‘The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone.’
‘It always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me. Something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover it.’
‘And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that. And I’m trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things. And that’s all I really want to say about that for now.’
Shawn is currently single, and recently admitted he was still ‘figuring out’ his sexuality; he is pictured in 2023
He previously discussed speculation about his sexuality in a 2018 Rolling Stone interview.
‘I thought, “You f*****g guys are so lucky I’m not actually gay and terrified of coming out,’ he said at the time.
‘That’s something that kills people. That’s how sensitive it is. Do you like the songs? Do you like me? Who cares if I’m gay?’
He also spoke about feeling the pressure to be seen out with women in order to prove he was ‘not gay.’
‘In the back of my heart, I feel like I need to go be seen with someone — like a girl — in public, to prove to people that I’m not gay. Even though in my heart I know that it’s not a bad thing. There’s still a piece of me that thinks that. And I hate that side of me.’
He also previously sparked romance rumors with his chiropractor, Dr. Jocelyne Miranda, 52, last year.
Shawn was also linked to Big Brother UK’s Charlie Travers in 2023.