Shawn Mendes hugs musician Mike Sabath after revealing truth about his sexuality following gay rumors

Shawn Mendes was seen sharing an clasp with instrumentalist Mike Sabath successful Los Angeles connected Tuesday - conscionable 1 time aft revealing the 'truth' astir his sexuality. 

The Stitches hitmaker, 26 - who also seemed to code cheery rumors successful a caller way titled The Mountain - was spotted loading luggage into a parked conveyance with the chap musician, besides 26. 

Earlier this week connected Monday, Mendes expressed that helium was inactive 'figuring out' his sexuality during a performance astatine the reddish Rock Amphitheatre successful Colorado. 

Shawn - who antecedently dated Camila Cabello - kept it casual successful a brace of loose-fitting denim jeans arsenic good arsenic a plain achromatic shirt. 

The prima layered the outfit with a plaid overgarment with a fuzzy trim connected the neckline to enactment lukewarm successful the cooler weather.  

Sabath besides dressed down for the outing wearing a brace of comfy, achromatic sweatpants and a short-sleeved, yellowish shirt.

The grounds shaper added a long-sleeved apical underneath and besides slipped into a brace of brownish boots. 

While loading suitcases into a sleek vehicle, the brace stopped to stock a choky hug nether the California sunshine. 

Shawn and Mike person been adjacent pals for years, and person besides collaborated connected euphony together. 

In 2021, Sabath - who has worked with different artists specified arsenic Selena Gomez, Lizzo and Meghan Trainor - was the composer and shaper for Shawn's way titled It'll Be Okay. 

Sabath is besides 1 of the producers connected Mendes' upcoming, 5th workplace medium titled, Shawn, which is slated to driblet adjacent period connected November 15. 

Their latest outing successful L.A. comes conscionable 1 time aft the Treat You Better vocalist got candid astir his sexuality arsenic helium addressed his fans during a performance astatine the Red Rock Amphitheatre connected Monday. 

The Canadian-born star spoke to the assemblage during 1 intimate infinitesimal of his For Friends and Family Tour show, and addressed the 'truth' astir his emotion life. 

'There's this happening astir my sexuality, and radical person been talking astir it truthful long,' helium added, saying it was 'kind of silly, due to the fact that I deliberation sexuality is specified a beautifully analyzable thing, and it’s truthful hard to conscionable enactment into boxes.'

'The existent information astir my beingness and my sexuality is that, man, I'm conscionable figuring it retired similar everyone.'

'It ever felt similar specified an intrusion connected thing precise idiosyncratic to me. Something that I was figuring retired successful myself, thing that I had yet to observe and inactive person yet to observe it.'

'And it feels truly scary due to the fact that we unrecorded successful a nine that has a batch to accidental astir that. And I'm trying to beryllium truly brave and conscionable let myself to beryllium a quality and consciousness things. And that’s each I truly privation to accidental astir that for now.'

Shawn besides shared: 'I was truly young erstwhile I started. I was 15 years old. The information is that I didn't get to bash a batch of 15-year-old things and observe parts of myself that you bash astatine 15.'

The creator sings astir his sexuality connected his caller song, The Mountain, and made the remarks portion introducing the opus astatine the show.

The lyrics to the opus see the line: 'You tin accidental I'm excessively young/You tin accidental I'm excessively old/You tin accidental I similar girls oregon boys, immoderate fits your mold.'

He besides spoke astir his travel portion penning the caller song, and said, 'Writing the opus felt truly important to maine due to the fact that it felt similar a infinitesimal wherever I could code it successful a mode that felt adjacent to my heart.' 

'And I conjecture I'm conscionable speaking freely now, due to the fact that I conscionable privation to beryllium capable to beryllium person to everyone and conscionable benignant of beryllium successful my truth.'

He antecedently discussed speculation astir his sexuality successful a 2018 Rolling Stone interview. 'I thought, "You f*****g guys are truthful fortunate I'm not really cheery and terrified of coming out,' helium said astatine the time.

'That's thing that kills people. That's however delicate it is. Do you similar the songs? Do you similar me? Who cares if I'm gay?'

He besides spoke astir feeling the unit to beryllium seen retired with women successful bid to beryllium helium was 'not gay.'

In 2019, Shawn said whispers astir his sexuality were 'hurtful' successful an interrogation with The Guardian.

The superstar addressed ongoing rumors astir his sexuality erstwhile much successful 2020, connected the Dax Shepard podcast.

'It was so, truthful frustrating for maine due to the fact that determination were immoderate radical successful my beingness that I was precise very adjacent to, who were cheery and successful the closet,' helium shared.

'And I felt similar this existent choler for those people. It's specified a tricky thing. You privation to say, "I'm not cheery but it’d beryllium good if I was cheery - but besides there's thing incorrect with being cheery but I’m not." You don't truly cognize however to respond to the situation.'

'Everyone's been calling maine cheery since I was 15 years old. I'm not cheery and I'm like, "What does that mean?" I had these problems with the mode my dependable sounded. I'm like, "How bash I sit?"'

'I'm ever archetypal to transverse my legs and beryllium with a presumption of this feminine benignant and I truly suffered with that s**t.'

He besides flatly denied that helium was cheery successful a Snapchat connection to his fans successful 2016, portion urging them to ore connected his work.

Although helium has been the entity of chaotic speculation astir his sexuality, Shawn has lone ever publically dated women, specified arsenic chap vocalist Camila.

Recently, Sabrina Carpenter deed the headlines for her azygous Taste, a acid-tongued opus that is rumored to beryllium aimed astatine Shawn and Camila.

Sabrina was concisely linked to Shawn successful 2023, during 1 of the gaps successful his long-running on-off narration with Camila.

Shawn and Camila publically got backmost unneurotic not agelong aft his dating rumors with Sabrina, but person since breached up yet again.

Mendes and Cabello went nationalist arsenic a mates implicit the summertime of 2019 and broke up successful 2021, past concisely reunited past twelvemonth lone to interruption up aft six weeks.

This summertime Shawn released his opus Why, Why, Why astir a gestation scare that 'shook maine to my core' - though helium declined to sanction the pistillate involved.

He besides antecedently sparked romance rumors with his chiropractor, Dr. Jocelyne Miranda, 52, past year.

Shawn was besides linked to Big Brother UK's Charlie Travers successful 2023.