John Mayer is pushing again on the narrative that he and Andy Cohen are something greater than friends — and is asking why their friendship would have to be certified within the first place.
In an electronic mail to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, Might 9, the musician responded to a portion of the journal’s cowl story with Watch What Occurs Stay host Cohen from earlier this week that noticed him responding to hypothesis that he and Mayer, 46, are romantically concerned.
“Allow them to speculate! I actually love John Mayer, and he loves me,” Cohen, 55, instructed THR. “However as a result of we’re so affectionate towards one another, folks don’t know what field to place that in. They assume we’re sleeping with one another, which we’re most undoubtedly not.”
In his be aware addressed to THR‘s co-editor-in-chief Maer Roshan, who performed the interview, the guitarist questioned why the subject can be of curiosity when it takes root from a “deeply flawed” premise.
“Hello Mr. Roshan,” Mayer begins. “I learn your interview with Andy Cohen, and was intrigued by your line of questioning concerning our friendship. You posited that ‘your friendship with Mayer has been a topic of intense hypothesis. Individuals appear doubtful {that a} straight rock star can have a detailed platonic relationship with a homosexual TV persona. I believe that is considerably of a specious premise. First, there’s a lengthy and storied historical past of ‘rock stars’ (not mocking, simply received’t seek advice from myself as one) befriending homosexual icons and artists.”
He continues, “Second, I believe that to recommend that persons are doubtful of a friendship like mine and Andy’s is to undermine the general public’s capability to just accept and perceive variety in all sides of tradition, be it in artwork or in actual life. I’d prefer to assume they’re subtle sufficient to see a relationship like ours with out assuming it should embody a sexual part. That turns the idea of being homosexual into an ignorantly two-dimensional one, which I do know you already know it’s not. I don’t query that in any respect.”
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“I like clever discourse — as I hope you’ll discover this electronic mail to be — however I bristle at your selectively flimsy logic meant to coax a solution, when the premise itself is so deeply flawed — and fairly presumably not even quantitatively true,” Mayer writes.
“Fairly merely, if somebody is doubtful of a platonic relationship between a straight man and a homosexual man, I don’t assume that shallow a view deserves clarification by anybody with self respect, be it Andy or your publication. Reinforcing the concept that any homosexual/straight relationship wants qualification that it’s not sexual devoids everybody concerned of their dignity.”
He indicators the e-mail, “Respectfully, John Mayer”
Cohen and Mayer have been pals for years, bonded by a shared love of the Grateful Lifeless, whom they went on a highway journey to see again in 2015. (Mayer now performs with the most recent incarnation of the band, Lifeless & Firm, who will launch their residency on the Sphere in Las Vegas later this month.)
“John Mayer and I’ve what some would think about an unlikely friendship. He is one among our biggest dwelling guitarists, and I am thought to be the dude that stirs the s— on late-night TV,” Cohen wrote in an article for Leisure Weekly on the time. “We do have one factor that bonds us: our love of the Grateful Lifeless. So when the band did 5 exhibits this summer time — their final ever — we used their Santa Clara, California, gigs as an excuse to take a highway journey and bro it up.”
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Throughout an look on Desk for Two with Bruce Bozzi in December 2022, the discuss present host revealed how his relationship with the “Wild Blue” singer is totally different from his different shut friends.
“John Mayer is somebody who may be very in contact together with his feelings,” Cohen instructed the host. “He in a short time in our friendship began saying, ‘You understand what, I gotta let you know one thing — I like you.'”
He continued, “He’s somebody to say, ‘I like you and I cherish you and I cherish our friendship’ — simply these things that straight guys aren’t essentially speculated to say.”
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