Harry Styles is explaining it all.
In May of last year, the singer was spotted among the crowd in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome when Pope Leo XIV was elected the new leader of the Catholic Church.
In a viral photo that was posted of him online, Styles was seen walking through the crowd wearing a pair of dark sunglasses, a black coat and a hat that said, “Techno is my boyfriend.”
In an interview Jan. 23 on BBC Radio 1, Styles told Greg James that he just so happened to be getting a haircut nearby.
“I was getting a haircut in Rome and then I just heard all these people start shouting, ‘Habemus Papam!’” he said, referencing the Latin phrase, “We have a Pope!”
While getting his hair done, Styles said he noticed that there was a lot of commotion outside.
“People just running down the street, so the guy cutting my hair stops cutting my hair, and he was like, ‘Habemus Papam! There’s a new Pope! There’s a new Pope!’ So then we finished up, and then I was like, oh, I’m like five minutes walk from there, so I walked over there. It was wild,” he explained.
James joked that if Styles were in the U.K., then people would’ve been chanting his name instead, which made Styles laugh.
However, the former One Direction band member said he was just curious to know what was happening outside while he was getting his hair done.
“I was like, who is this, getting all this attention?” he said.
Styles is currently getting ready to embark on his “Together Together” tour, in support of his upcoming album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.”
Styles will do 50 shows across seven cities, including just one location in the United States — New York City. There, he’ll do a 30-date residency at Madison Square Garden, which will start in August and end in October.