Shawn Mendes Apologizes for Misgendering Sam Smith: ‘It Absolutely Slipped My Mind’

On Friday (Dec. 11), pop singer Shawn Mendes took to his Instagram stories to publicly apologize to fellow pop star Sam Smith for using the wrong pronouns when introducing them at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball on Thursday night.
“Oh @samsmith,” he wrote in a post to his stories. “I’m so sorry for referring to you as a ‘he’ for your Jingle Ball introduction. It absolutely slipped my mind. Wont [sic] happen again…Sending you so much love! Also you are absol