Lewis Capaldi has opened up about his dating life and said it's hard to get into relationships as he's been banned from most dating sites. The 'Forget Me' singer appeared on Steven Barlett's podcast The Diary of a CEO to talk about his life and when asked about his current relationship status, he told the entrepreneur that he's been banned from Tinder.
Steven said: "So, you're on Tinder? You're on dating apps?" Lewis laughed and said: "Yes! I've just been kicked off of Tinder, because I think people think I am fake! So I've been kicked off of Bumble, Tinder and Hinge! I really love Tinder but Hinge is the one I really want to get on cause I feel like that's the one people in their mid-twenties, that's the one people are on! But yeah, I'm on a bunch of them don't worry about that.
"Someone also told me to get on to this one called Field, you know I'm like aw cool, another f*****g dating app, so I go on it and it's like so sexual it's unbelievable! Like 'kinks' and BDSM and I'm like, this is way beyond anything I am tuned in for! But yeah, I've been kicked off Hinge, Bumble and Tinder but you know, at the end of the day, I'm still f*****g 25!"
He then spoke about the fact that he struggles with a few aspects of dating. He said: "I don't want to use my fame, I don't want that to have an influence on someone I am dating, but at the same time, it's obviously a big part of me, it's unavoidable."
He added: "It's like am I only supposed to date people who are also famous? It's a really weird thing so yeah I'll admit being on Tinder is a bit weird, I met my last girlfriend on Tinder and she was great so."
Also during the interview Lewis really opened up about suffering with anxiety and hypochondria. Lewis spoke of a crippling anxiety attack he faced at the 2020 Grammy Awards - and how his mum Carol has had to sleep beside him to comfort him as recently as last month.
The Bathgate-born musician said: “If I'm having a panic attack there's nobody else that can help me out of it except my mum, for sure. My mum has had to sleep in my bed as recently as a month ago because of how bad my anxiety got at one point. But that was alcohol related to be honest, I had been on a bit of a bender."
Lewis, who recently revealed he suffers from Tourettes, explained he’s had therapy to deal with his anxiety and he now thinks it roots from childhood issues.
He said: “I have really bad anxiety. It never really reached a tipping point until after getting famous, I never had a panic attack until after I was famous, or after I was a musician or after I got to a height. The hypochondria, I guess looking back, I was such an anxious kid, but now because I understand it a lot more with therapy and I speak about it a lot more with people and try to learn more about it, I look back at it and think the behaviour was a result of anxiety.
“I would be walking around school moping, with blinkers on, because I was so convinced that I was going to die or I had this horrible disease or I was going to have to go to hospital, pass out or have a seizure - none of that has ever happened to me.”
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