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Sam Smith: "I'm more wary about who I surround myself with"

Sam Smith reveals in today's Guardian that he got burgled recently and is worried what will happen when his success will stop.

Staring up at the top of a block of flat's in London's East End, he said: 

"See, that's where I lived two years ago; £600 a month rent I used to pay. I was working full-time in a bar Monday to Sunday, all the hours I could, and I'd walk home because I couldn't afford the tube.

"Now? My current flat? Oh that's cheaper – £500 a month. I got burgled a few weeks ago, so now I'm actually homeless. I'm trying to find a place to live."

Worry about future success is due to his rocky past, Smith admits:

"Things went so badly for so long, and then suddenly it all just goes amazingly. Honestly, I remember waking up one morning and it was all different. Every day it gets a little bit more insane. I get good news every day. I'm so scared for when that's going stop, if it's going to stop."

His mother, Kate Cassidy, started her working life as a Barclays bank clerk in Islington and ended up as a City trader earning £500,000 a year. Cassidy sued City bonds and currency broker Tullett Prebon for £1.5m for unfair dismissal after being sacked for, allegedly, spending part of her working day managing her son's career. 

Reflecting on his mother's personal experience, the 'Latch' singer said:

"I wonder if they'll be surrounding me if my next album charts at No 104. It's reminding me of that time when my mum had so much money and then all the people she thought were her closest friends disappeared. I'm more wary than anyone about who I surround myself with."

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Watch Sam Smith perform 'Latch' with Disclosure at London's Alexandra Palace, and Vin Diesel cover Smith's 'Stay With Me' below: