Ed Sheeran totally quit Twitter after his Game of Thrones episode, before it magically appeared again.

Many think he deleted it because of the mad trolling getting thrown his direction after his cameo. But Ed explained the whole story via Instagram:

“Last i’ll say on this,” he wrote holding hands with his manager. “I came off Twitter Coz I was always intending to come off Twitter, had nothing to do with what people said about my game of thrones cameo, because I am in game of thrones, why the hell would I worry what people thought about that. It’s clearly fuckin’ awesome. Timing was just a coincidence, but believe what you want. Here is an unrelated picture of me and my wonderful manager riding off into the sunset together.”

Last i’ll say on this. I came off Twitter Coz I was always intending to come off Twitter, had nothing to do with what people said about my game of thrones cameo, because I am in game of thrones, why the hell would I worry what people thought about that. It’s clearly fuckin’ awesome. Timing was just a coincidence, but believe what you want. Here is an unrelated picture of me and my wonderful manager riding off into the sunset together

A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) on Jul 19, 2017 at 9:04am PDT