Ed Sheeran was "intensely unhappy" in the first decade of his career.

The 34-year-old pop star admits that he had "no balance" in his life, as he put his music over his personal happiness for years.

Ed told The Sun newspaper: "I think in the first decade of my career I was intensely unhappy as I had no ­balance, I was just work, work, work.

"And yes, everything was hyper-successful, but it was hyper-successful because I had no personal life at all.

"Work was everything. I think ­finding that balance with getting married, having a family, living around my friends...

"Being able to spend time with my friends and family — that has now become 70 per cent of my life, and work is like 30 per cent.

"Before, it was 100 per cent and zero anything else.

"The balance of getting to exist as a h

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