Ellie Goulding finally addresses rumour she betrayed Ed Sheeran by cheating on him with Niall Horan - Daily Mail

Ellie Goulding has yet addressed the rumour she cheated connected Ed Sheeran with Niall Horan. 

The singer, 36, sparked romance rumours with Ed, 31, backmost successful 2013 but aboriginal speculation began Ellie had betrayed Ed by having a fling with One Direction prima Niall, 29, aft helium wrote the smash deed Don't. 

The Starry-eyed hitmaker uploaded a TikTok video implicit Christmas and responded to a instrumentality who wrote: 'Can't judge you cheated connected Ed with Niall but slay'. 

Ellie deed back: 'False!!!! But besides slay'. 

Fans couldn't judge the songstress had addressed the rumour aft years of speculation. 

One follower wrote: 'Never caput Ed oregon Niall, I'm available', portion different added: 'Never volition hide Ed dissing'. 

Ed memorably penned Don't astir an ex cheating connected him with a person – rumoured to person been Niall and Ellie.

Ellie and Ed were linked to each different aft they were spotted holding hands astatine the MTV VMA awards successful August 2013.

But Ellie instantly took to Twitter to contradict that thing was going connected betwixt the pair, claiming they were conscionable bully friends.

In a Tweet written that night, which she aboriginal deleted, she wrote: 'I emotion that holding hands with my friends means we're an item.'

Ellie besides included: 'In that lawsuit I americium successful galore relationships. Lover not a hater. #whatthef**k.'

But Ed offered a somewhat antithetic mentation of events portion discussing his relationship with the Starry Eyed hitmaker connected US vigor amusement Clock 98.9 aboriginal successful the year.

When asked astir the rumours, helium revealed the brace were much than conscionable bully mates astatine the time, explaining: 'I mean, mean radical don't clasp hands if they're conscionable friends.'

Meanwhile, successful 2015, Ellie admitted to a fling with Niall Horan but insisted she ne'er dated Ed successful an interrogation with Elle. 

She said: 'I did spell connected a fewer dates with Niall, but I was ne'er successful a narration with Ed [Sheeran]. I person perfectly nary thought wherever that came from and wherefore it was turned into specified a large thing. 

'I find it truthful frustrating that pistillate musicians are perpetually defined by the men they person oregon haven’t dated. It’s thing I’ve talked astir with Taylor (Swift) a lot. She decidedly feels that.

'She gets bothered by it. It’s like, you tin beryllium a large artist, you tin constitute large songs, but the happening that everyone is going to speech astir is immoderate narration they deliberation you person had oregon not had. It’s decidedly thing we some deliberation happens to pistillate artists implicit antheral artists.’

Ed, meanwhile, stated successful an interrogation the opus Don't helped him 'get implicit the anger' astir the pistillate who betrayed him. 

Ellie went connected to find emotion with Caspar Jopling and the mates welcomed their archetypal kid to lad Arthur successful 2021, portion Ed joined his puerility sweetheart Cherry Seaborn successful 2019 and is simply a arrogant dada of two.