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Well, he did write a song called "My Stupid Mouth": John Mayer has apologized for using a racial slur in his controversial Playboy interview."Re: using the 'N word' in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. ... I should have...
Well, he did write a song called "My Stupid Mouth": John Mayer has apologized for using a racial slur in his controversial Playboy interview.
"Re: using the 'N word' in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. ... I should have never said the word and I will never say it again," Mayer wrote in a series of tweets.
Mayer used the slur to describe what he said was his acceptance by African-Americans.
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"The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she's still hoping it goes back to 1998," he said. "She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, 'These are the new rules.'"Mayer said the two still care deeply about each other. He was less discreet in describing his relationship with Jessica Simpson, whom he dated prior to Aniston. "That girl, for me, is a drug. And drugs aren't good for you if you do lots of them. Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me," he said. "Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm."A rep for Simpson declined to comment on Mayer's remarks.Hours after posting the tweets, Mayer made a lengthy, emotional apology at his Nashville concert Wednesday night."In the quest to be clever I completely forgot about the people that I love and the people that love me and I went, as I had begun to do, into a wormhole of selfishness and greediness and arrogance," he said.Mayer thanked his bandmates for their support of him as a "possible future grown-up" and then vowed to "quit the soundbite game.""I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done," he said. "I just want to play my guitar to whoever is around."