Sam Smith revealed they believe they contracted COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic. During a FaceTime interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Smith opened up about diagnosing themselves with COVID-19. “I didn’t get tested but I know I had it.
I 100 per cent had it. Everything I’ve read completely pointed to that. So yeah, I think I definitely had it,” Smith told Lowe. “As soon as I had it, my sister, like, five days after me, started getting the same symptoms, who’s living with me.
We just isolated for three weeks because we knew.” “As everyone was kind of really on lockdown, that’s when I got over it, luckily.” Self-isolating made Smith want to create and sing music. “The first two weeks, I just wanted to sing.