John sat down with host Alex Cooper on Wednesday for the wide-ranging chat, which included a short reference to his courting life — each previous and current.
For a little bit of background, John has lengthy confronted scrutiny over his therapy of girls within the public eye, specifically his exes Jessica Simpson and — maybe most infamously — Taylor Swift.
Speaking with Playboy in 2010, which was roughly three years after he and Jessica parted methods, John made a number of degrading remarks about his ex. “Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm,” he mentioned.
At the time, Jessica revealed that she was “so disappointed” in John and didn’t settle for his eventual apology. “I hope he gets his life together,” she mentioned.
And John’s previous relationship with Taylor, which solely lasted just a few months again in late 2009 and early 2010, has confronted much more backlash in recent times, with their controversial 13-year age hole being an enormous speaking level on-line.
Taylor was simply 19 when the pair have been romantically linked, whereas John was 32. After they cut up, John publicly condemned a really pointed track Taylor wrote that seemingly mentioned their relationship, which was fairly actually titled “Dear John.”
A few years after its launch, John described Taylor’s songwriting as “cheap” and “lousy” throughout an interview with Rolling Stone. “It made me feel terrible,” he mentioned. “It was a really lousy thing to do. I never got an email. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off guard.”
“I will say as a songwriter that I think it’s kind of cheap songwriting,” he continued. “I know she’s the biggest thing in the world, and I’m not trying to sink anybody’s ship, but I think it’s abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, ‘Wait till he gets a load of this!’ That’s bullshit.” The following 12 months, John launched a track titled “Paper Doll,” which was broadly interpreted to be about their failed relationship.
More lately, in October, Taylor appeared to deal with the previous relationship as soon as once more in lyrics on her newest album, Midnights. In a monitor titled “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve,” the singer seemingly expressed remorse at courting older males when she was simply 19.
Now, John has mentioned his controversial previous courting life on Call Her Daddy, telling the host Alex about being nicknamed issues like “Lothario” and “womanizer.”
“I think, look, the elephant in the room is that I’m on a show that caters to women, and I have a couple of name plates on me, like ‘Lothario’ and ‘womanizer,’ and I think that is what that is,” he mentioned.
John went on to say that folks “would be surprised” to be taught that he’s tremendous confused by such nicknames.
Explaining why he had a historical past of falling in love “very deeply,” John mentioned that rising up, he was “made to believe” that any individual displaying curiosity in him was at all times an “accident” that he wanted to “capitalize” on.
“I felt very deeply when somebody liked me,” he mentioned. “Very deeply.”
Going on to clarify why he doesn’t “really date” anymore, John famous that since getting sober six years in the past, he now not has “the liquid courage.”
“Dating is no longer a codified activity for me, it doesn’t exist in a kind of… It’s not patterned anymore,” he mentioned.
“I don’t really date — I don’t think that I have to, to be quite honest,” he went on. “I quit drinking like six years ago, so I don’t have the liquid courage. I just have dry courage.”
John’s feedback come simply over a 12 months after he responded to harsh dying threats from a Taylor Swift fan amid renewed backlash of their previous relationship and age distinction.
Screenshots surfaced throughout social media final November displaying merciless Instagram DMs that the fan had despatched John, which learn: “fuck yourself ugly bitch i hope you choke on something.”
John purportedly replied to the consumer straight: “I’ve been getting so many messages like these the past couple of days, I decided to choose your message at random to reply to. You can feel free to screenshot, share in any way you like if you want. I’m not upset, I just tend to have a curious mind and feel compelled to ask. Do you really hope that I die?”
Several followers condemned those that have been sending John dying threats after the screengrabs surfaced on-line — however maintained that he shouldn’t be defended for his previous actions.