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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