Shawn Mendes is not afraid to say that he still loves his ex-girlfriend and close friend, Camila Cabello, and that it will always be so. The singer spoke in a new interview about their relationship now and his separation song, "When You're Gone", which is about him.

"[We are] very friends," he said of their relationship now. "I mean, I have loved Camila for so many years and that will never change."

Regarding the song "When You're Gone", Mendes said:

"Camila heard this song months ago, so we have a really honest relationship. I would never publish a song about her before she heard it. She knows me and I know her, and at the end of after all, we're both writers and we both know what it's like to make music. "

Cabello and Mendes announced their split in November after two years of bonding.