Ellie Goulding: 'I did go on a few dates with Niall Horan'

Songstress Ellie Goulding has confirmed that she did have a brief romance with One Direction heartthrob Niall Horan in the past.

Singer Ed Sheeran recently admitted that his song 'Don't' is about how Niall Horan stole Goulding away from him, but the beauty has now revealed that she was never in a relationship with Sheeran so the whole situation was blown out of proportion by the track:

"I did go on a few dates with Niall but 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. I find it so frustrating that female musicians are constantly defined by the men they have or haven't dated. It's something I've talked about with [Taylor Swift] a lot. She definitely feels that. She gets bothered by it."

Goulding added to ELLE magazine that it's stressful to think that she can have an amazing music career, but the one thing that will always top her achievements is gossip about her love life:

"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."

Watch Sheeran's music video for 'Don't' below: