Shawn Mendes Says He & Camila Cabello ‘Really Know Each Other’s Hearts’

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello may not be together as a couple anymore, but they’ll always be in each other’s lives.

In a new interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe published Thursday (Nov. 14), the Canadian singer-songwriter opened up about his lifelong friendship with the “Havana” musician, whom he dated 2019 to 2021 before they rekindled — and quickly ended — their romance in 2023. “I just think that we really know each other,” he said.

“I think we haven’t been the closest over the last couple of years, but I think we really know each other,” he continued. “We’ve spent a lot of time together. We really know each other’s hearts. So even when all of the sound and all the noise is happening, we can see through each other’s both pretty easily, and it’s just nice to have that.”

Both Mendes and Cabello have been increasingly open about their former relationship this past year, with the latter confirming on Call Her Daddy in March that they’d briefly tried to reconnect romantically before breaking up a second time. “I will always care about him and love him. He’s such a good person,” she said at the time. “I’m lucky ’cause some people have exes who are awful, and he is not. He’s a really kind, good person.”

In September, Mendes added to the conversation by saying on the Jay Shetty Podcast that he and Cabello were “preserving [their] private little fire of love for each other.” When a fan tweeted after the episode, “they don’t play about each other” — in reference to the former flames — the “Mercy” singer replied on X, “no we don’t.”

Then, when fans asked him to clarify what he mean, Mendes added, “i guess to be honest it came from a place of being a little annoyed with all the projection over the last few months about us. I’m usually pretty good at just watching all the “noise” go by but lately it’s been kinda bugging me 🤷🏻♂️ feeling human i guess.”

Mendes’ interview with Lowe comes one day ahead of his fifth studio album, Shawn. The LP was originally supposed to arrive Oct. 18 but was pushed back to Nov. 15 nine days before it was initially intended to come out. The project will follow 2020’s Wonder, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Watch Mendes discuss his friendship with Cabello below.