Shawn Mendes Talks About the Amazing Gift He Got While Quarantining at Camila Cabello's Home

Shawn Mendes is opening up about life in quarantine with his longtime girlfriend Camila Cabello and the “best gift” he received during that time.

The 22-year-old singer is dropping his new album Wonder in a couple weeks and he chatted with Zane Lowe on Apple Music to promote the release.

“The pandemic that’s happening and the isolation and the quarantine has been terrifying and really hard, but something really beautiful for me came out of it, which was you’re not allowed to leave. Stillness,” Shawn said (via E! News).

“I went to Miami and I was living with Camila and her parents and her sister and I was in panic for the first week being like there’s no way I’m going to make an album,” he continued. “And then when I started to settle in to how nice it is to be in the same place every night, to have a movie time, to cook dinner with the family and to do laundry. I know it sounds really kind of silly but when you’ve been touring the world since you’re 15 years old, like, I don’t remember the last time I smelled laundry. It’s a nice smell. It’s a really calming smell. It feels like growing up.”

Shawn said, “That stillness brought a lot of anxiety to the surface that I had to work through and on the other side of that was a really reflective period for me where I could be like, ‘Oh this is what I’ve been doing. This is crazy. This is what I can do. This is art. This is bigger than me.’ It was the first time I had the chance to even think about someone more than me. It was the first time I had enough space in my heart and my head that wasn’t so consumed about how many people were caring about what I was doing.”

“It was the first time I was quiet and I was able to be like, ‘What is happening in this world and how do I feel about it and what can I do and where does this go from here?’ That was the best gift I think I’ve ever, ever been given in my whole life,” Shawn concluded.

Shawn is back in Florida with Camila and we have some new photos of them that were taken just one day ago!