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Following the season three finale of 'The White Lotus,' Mike White is getting candid about the series' Emmy-winning composer announcing he's quitting the show. Last week, composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer told The New York Times that he's exiting the show after feuding with White over the score, saying, "We already had our last fight forever." In a new interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday -  White was asked about the composer's comments.

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00:00Mike White is not holding back. Following the season 3 finale of The White Lotus,

00:04the creator is getting candid about the series' Emmy-winning composer announcing that he's quitting

00:09the show. Last week, composer Cristobal Tapia DeVere told the New York Times that he's exiting

00:16the show after feuding with White over the score, saying,

00:19We already had our last fight forever. In a new interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday,

00:24White was asked about the composer's comments. He said, quote,

00:27I honestly don't know what happened, except now I'm reading his interviews because he

00:31decides to do some PR campaign about him leaving the show. I don't think he respected me. He wants

00:36people to know that he's edgy and dark and I'm, I don't know, like, I watch reality TV. We never

00:41really even fought. He says we feuded. I don't think I ever had to fight with him, except for maybe some

00:45emails. He went on to say, it was basically me giving him notes. I don't think he liked going

00:50through the process of getting notes from me or wanting revisions because he didn't respect me.

00:54I knew he wasn't a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to

00:58the New York Times to on me on the show three days before the finale. It was kind of a move.

01:03White also revealed that he struggled with DeVere during the first two seasons, saying,

01:07By the time the third season came around, he'd won Emmys and he had his song go viral. He didn't

01:11want to go through the process with me. He didn't want to go to sessions. He would always look at me

01:15with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I was a chimp or something. Like he's

01:19definitely making a big deal out of a creative difference. He concluded the topic with adding,

01:24He's very talented, but I'd never kiss somebody's a** so hard just to get him to,

01:28to lead that horse to water. Have fun with whatever you're doing next.

01:31For more updates on this story, head over to thehollywoodreporter.com.

01:35This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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