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Shawn Mendes on getting Taylor Swift tour opening slot: 'I freaked out'

Canadian sensation Shawn Mendes has been opening for superstar Taylor Swift on her 1989 tour and he has now revealed how he found out that he had been booked on some of the dates. 

During a new interview with B96 Chicago recently, the heartthrob admitted that he met with the 'Bad Blood' beauty's manager and mother, and even though he knew that joining the tour was a possibility, he didn't believe it until he got confirmation:

"I mean, it was... I don't even know how long ago now, but I met her manager and her mother. I did a show and they came out to watch it, and we got along really nice. I knew that she had the tour coming up and I was possibly an option. Realistically, I had no idea. Like, absolutely no idea. One day I got the message and I freaked out, and now I'm here!"

Mendes, meanwhile, recently spoke about his dark video for 'Stitches' and joked that he actually got into a few scraps at school: "Believe it or not actually, I actually was in loads when I was in elementary school. Someone used to say to me, "why do you like, why do you put yourself into the problems," because I always found when I saw kids getting bullied on I would always step in, but then I would feel bad (laughs), but yeah I was definitely in more than 5 or 10 tussles. No, nothing as bad as it was in that video ('Stitches'), I really got beat up in that video (laughs)."

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Watch the interview in full below: