John Mayer is setting the record straight on his friendship with Andy Cohen. Cohen recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter as part of a cover story during which at one point he touched on questions regarding his longtime friendship with Mayer. The relationship between the openly gay Bravo host and the straight rock star, has spurred curiosity and headlines in both tabloids and the mainstream press.
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00:00 John Mayer is setting the record straight on his friendship with Andy Cohen.
00:03 Cohen recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter as part of a cover story,
00:09 during which at one point he touched on questions regarding his longtime friendship with Mayer.
00:13 The relationship between the openly gay Bravo host and the straight rock star
00:17 has spurred curiosity and headlines in both tabloids and the mainstream press.
00:21 Cohen's response to all the speculation? "Let them speculate. I honestly love John
00:26 Mayer and he loves me. But because we are so affectionate to each other, people don't know
00:30 what box to put that in. They assume we are sleeping with each other, which we are most
00:34 definitely not." That snippet in a 5,000-word interview quickly went viral, with dozens of
00:39 news outlets picking it up. It also caught the eye of Mayer himself, who wrote THR a personal
00:44 response. "Mayer said that he was intrigued by the line of questioning regarding our friendship.
00:49 You posited that your friendship with Mayer has been a subject of intense speculation.
00:53 People seem dubious that a straight rock star can have a close platonic relationship
00:57 with a gay TV personality." He noted that "I'd like to think people are sophisticated enough
01:02 to see a relationship like ours without assuming it must include a sexual component.
01:07 That turns the concept of being gay into an ignorantly two-dimensional one."
01:11 He concluded in part, "Quite simply, if someone is dubious of a platonic relationship between a
01:16 straight man and a gay man, I don't think that shallow a view deserves clarification by anyone
01:21 with self-respect." To read John Mayer's full response to THR, head to the article on THR.com.
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