For the past six months, we’ve been watching Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello get flirty on Instagram, kiss in public, and basically steam up the stage anytime they perform “Senorita” together. There have been many whispers of coupledom but nary a confirmation from the two, despite mounting evidence. That is until this weekend, when Mendes, during a concert in Connecticut last week, decided to confirm whether or not there was a capital-T Thing going on in his life.
During his tour, a fan asked Mendes about a fateful sentence the singer had once said. About two years ago, Mendes had declared he’d never been in love. In an interview with Clash published in September 2017, the singer had said that he thought his music might change when he finally fell in love: “The day I can actually write a song about my girlfriend who I am truly in love with—because I’ve never actually truly been in love, I don’t know what type of music’s going to come out of me when I am. That might be a whole new wave of music that I never thought I could write,” he told the magazine.
Now, with all the rumors about Mendes and Cabello swirling, the fan apparently wanted to know where things might stand—but posed the question in a pretty tactful way. “You’ve said you’ve never been in love. Has that changed recently?” the fan asked Mendes, according to ET Canada.
“Honestly, I wanna say I wanna talk to you guys about this stuff, but it’s not just me in the relationship,” Mendes answered, equally tactfully. “There’s another person involved, and I can’t say things that I feel. It’s not just me deciding, you know?”
Of course, Mendes doesn’t name any names here, so we still have to take it with a grain of salt. But he’s in a relationship, which is something that was not confirmed until now. Until we hear more, we’ll just leave the brand-new video of Camila Cabello ruminating on the nature of love here.
