'In these situations you really find out who your friends are,' he told the crowd in footage captured by a fan.
At the end of the show, a tearful Sheeran said playing the concert had given him hope. He said: “Everyone is telling me to cancel, and I’m feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me and I look at the end of the week and I see 50,000 people who haven’t abandoned.”
... maybe our real friends were the pedophiles and genocide supporters we met along the way