After becoming one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Shawn Mendes did the unthinkable. He stepped away from it all.

Sunday night, at a homecoming show in Toronto during his aptly-named On The Road Again Tour, Mendes made his emotional return to playing in front of large audiences, and beamed as he told the sold-out crowd at Budweiser Stage how he found his way back in front of a microphone and rekindled his love for music.

During his 95-minute show, which kicked off with a rousing rendition of his 2017 top 10 hit There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back , Mendes, 27, shared personal stories and opened up on the mental health struggles that caused him to cancel his 2022 Wonder Tour.

“I went through a real period of feeling lost in myself and I wrote an album about it,” he said as he intr

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