Shawn Mendes Finally Opens Up About 'Brutal' Public Relationship & Breakup With Camila Cabello

Shawnmila fans, you might want to sit down for this!

Shawn Mendes is opening up about his breakup with Camila Cabello — and detailing all the ways they still love each other despite not being able to make it work. On Monday’s episode of the Jay Shetty Podcast, the 26-year-old singer got candid about what he learned about love and partnership — and how they’re different. He explained:

“Love is a lot, but partnership is more than love and I think it has a lot to do with how you support each other in your day-to-day life and really being honest about who you are. And making sure that someone that you’re with is in support of that and doesn’t have to bend themselves entirely to be in support of that and vice versa.”

He went on to say his very public romance and breakup with the Havana songstress was “brutal”, but ultimately the pair were able to handle it as well as they could:

“Honestly, I think Camila and I have just done the best job at preserving our private little fire of love for each other. because no matter how strong mentally you are, when there are millions of people commenting on it, it’s so hard not to be affected by it and to be swayed by it and to be inspired by it.”

It sounds like he’s saying the public opinion may have had a bit to do with their problems… if true, that’s so sad!

Because of the entire Shawnmila saga, the Life of the Party singer said he pulled back a lot from sharing details of his personal life:

“It’s honestly too detrimental to the actual relationship itself that I’ve become pretty strict on that part of it. We’re not in a movie. This is not a movie… This is real life. This is real love and love is confusing and hard and goes through dips, goes through pauses, goes through breaks.”

Despite all the ups and downs of Shawn and Camila’s relationship, however, they remain close friends:

“I’ll be the first to text her. She’ll be the first to text me. So as long as we’re good, all the noise is just noise. I don’t think either of us would ever cross a line. We deeply respect each other.”

He wrapped up by calling his ex “amazing”:

“I’m just lucky she’s an amazing human being and she’s incredibly understand and thoughtful and caring.”

Aww!

They really seem to be in a healthy place with one another, even if they didn’t work out romantically. Reactions, Perezcious readers? You can see the full interview (below):