Taylor Swift 'completely blindsided' her longtime friend Ed Sheeran

The race to become the one in the music world has driven a wedge between Taylor Swift and her “second brother,” Ed Sheeran.

Radar Online reported that Swift has created a distance from her close friend and long-time collaborator Sheeran over their chart rivalry and overlapping release dates.

The insider told the outlet that the bond between both stars has been “seriously strained;” they once used to call each other “brother and sisters.”

For those unaware, Swift released her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, just a few weeks after Sheeran dropped his eighth studio album, Play, which immediately hit streaming platforms and outperformed. This shocked the Sapphire hitmaker and made his team take prompt action to come up with a new plan for promoting his release.

The source said, "Ed is meticulous about timing – it's a big part of why he's been so successful. When Taylor revealed her album was coming just a couple of weeks after his, it completely disrupted his rollout. His team had to scramble to adjust their plans and bring things forward.”

“He was definitely upset, and it's created real tension between them. From his perspective, she didn't have to overshadow his release – but she chose to anyway."

"Taylor's done this sort of thing before – she's incredibly competitive, and when she's focused on an album rollout, nothing else really takes priority. Ed didn't see it coming and felt completely blindsided. The music industry is ruthless, but even by those standards, this one really hurt,” the source claimed.