Ed Sheeran Says He Had Never Cried On Camera Until He Listened To This Little Girl's Song

Ed Sheeran was on a mission to make children laugh and show the "optimistic and progressive side of Liberia," which was devastated by the 2014 Ebola crisis.

Though Sheeran recalls "there was optimism everywhere," he was never far from devastation. At a school in West Point, he met a girl named Peaches who asked to sing for him and gave him what he calls "my first reality shock."

As she sang she began to cry, because her father (who died after contracting Ebola) had taught her that song. Before long, Sheeran got emotional too. "In my whole career I have never cried on camera but I'm completely overwhelmed," he explains.