Ellie Goulding just threw shade at Ed Sheeran in the WORST way

Jun 3, 2015

Any Ed Sheeran fans out there will no doubt know the saga of the Ed/Ellie Goulding/Niall Horan love triangle inside out… but now Ellie herself is claiming it's not all true.

Although none of the three stars have ever officially confirmed what happened until now, it's widely thought that Ellie cheated on Ed with One Direction's Niall back in 2013.

Ed may have moved on with his (now ex) girlfriend Athina Andrelos, but his feelings about the Ellie situation were laid out for all to see in the lyrics of Don't, one of the biggest singles from his current album, X.

Including lyrics like, "And I never saw him as a threat, until you disappeared with him to have sex of course… It's not like we were both on tour, we were staying on the same f***ing hotel floor," the song makes no secret of the singer's anger and frustration.

Now though, Ellie Goulding has spoken out about the drama for the first time, and she alleges that she never even dated Ed, let alone cheated on him.

"I was never in a relationship with Ed. I have absolutely no idea where that came from and why it was turned into such a big thing," the Lights singer revealed in the current issue of UK Elle.

If that is the truth, we're wondering what exactly was going on in this picture, taken at the 2013 MTV VMAs…

As for Niall, that seems to be a different story altogether, as Ellie did admit to having gone on "a few dates" with the Mullingar man.

Whatever the truth may be, the 28-year-old says she is keen to put the past behind her and not have her love life picked apart by the media. "I find it so frustrating that female musicians are constantly defined by the men they have or haven't dated," she told the magazine.

Ellie has even discussed the issue with her celebrity BFF Taylor Swift, another singer whose dating life seems to be a matter of public importance. "It's something I've talked about with Taylor [Swift] a lot. She definitely feels that. She gets bothered by it," Ellie explained.

"It's like, you can be a great artist, you can write great songs, but the thing that everyone is going to talk about is some relationship they think you have had or not had. It's definitely something we both think happens to female artists over male artists."

We definitely appreciate Ellie's point of view, but for some reason we find it very hard to believe that nothing went on between her and Ed. We're taking this awkward post-relationship hug at the 2014 Victoria's Secret show as proof: