Sheeran was on drugs when he got text from Hobbit director

Ed Sheeran has revealed that he was high on MDMA when director Peter Jackson texted him to ask if he would write a song for ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’.

The 23-year-old singer-songwriter admits he decided to try the drug for the first time while on holiday in Ibiza, attending his producer Jack Gossling’s wedding.