Add Sam Smith to the growing list of celebrities who’ve contracted COVID-19. In a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Smith says they caught the bug while in the U.K., but like many others self-diagnosed, stayed in and let nature take its course. “I didn’t get tested but I know I had it.
100 percent had it. Everything I’ve read completely pointed to that. So yeah, I think I definitely had it," Smith recounts. Soon after falling ill, Smith’s sister started showing the same symptoms.
So they locked it down for a three-week stint in self-isolation to protect those near and dear. "As everyone was kind of really on lockdown, that’s when I got over it, luckily." With the doors closed to the outside world, Smith needed a release.