Daniel Bedingfield Talks about “Loving A Man” Publicly for the First Time

Singer UK

2024-04-29
12:05

For the first time, singer Daniel Bedingfield publicly talked about the “man I loved.”

In a sold-out gig at the London Palladium last April 23, the New Zealand-born singer talked about his sexuality. “In my era, you had to be gay or straight, or f**k you. I wrote this song with a man I loved about a girl we both loved,” the 44-year-old singer told the crowd.

This song was “Borderline.” He then said that he and the unnamed man missed this woman when she left them. “I’m not very gay,” he said, “but we were in a hot spring, sitting on a rock, missing her.”

Bedingfield took a self-imposed hiatus for the past two decades but returned to the spotlight to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of his first hit song “Gotta Get Thru This” which sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK.

He also talked about the difficulties he had growing up, saying he had no friends until he was about age 16. “I wanted to die,” he said, but the friends and music he made saved him.

Daniel — brother of the equally successful singer Natasha Bedingfield — also talked about his autism, asking people to “be nice to autistic people.” He had talked about the difficulty of handling fame and criticism after experiencing massive success in the industry.

In 2004, Bedingfield was involved in a car crash in New Zealand which could have been fatal. Since then, he has moved “somewhere where nobody cares if you’re famous — Los Angeles.”

There, he did “farming, homesteading, like chickens and bees and fruit trees and food, forests and ecological stuff” or what he called “regenerative stuff.”

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