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John Mayer Admits He 'Manufactured Irrelevance' & Messed Up In His 20s

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By MLC on December 20, 2022 at 12:30 PM PST

John Mayer is this week’s celebrity guest on “Call Her Daddy,” and the teaser trailer did NOT disappoint.

The singer touches on his Lothario ways in his 20s, “manufactured irrelevance” and messing up the narrative about him as a person.

“John Mayer, welcome to ‘Call Her Daddy,’” the teaser begins.

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It cuts to the singer telling Alex Cooper, “It’s like I have manufactured irrelevance. That is really scary to do. It’s really scary to come off of that loop when you’re in a news cycle, news cycle, news cycle.”

Cooper responds, “How did you make that decision?”

“It was made for me… [by] my actions,” Mayer admits. “A lot of the s**t I did in my 20s was an attempt to reset the misunderstanding and I made it worse. In those moments, I would have traded every song I was going to write to not have that feeling. No doubt about it,” he candidly said. “I would’ve said, ‘take all the songs I’ll ever write to stop this feeling from happening right now.’”

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Mayer Admits He "Manufactured Irrelevance"

He goes into a live performance of “Why Georgia.”

Of course, the comments section was flooded with questions for Cooper to ask Mayer.

“Holllllyyyy omg,” one person wrote.

“ASK THE QUESTIONS WE WANT THE ANSWERS TO ALEX,” another implored.

“Me patiently waiting for Wednesday to see if Father Cooper brings up Taylor,” one fan replied.

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Someone else mentioned Jessica Simpson in the comments given she dished about her relationship with Mayer in her memoir.

Cooper is known for asking the hard-hitting and at times, uncomfortable questions, so I have a lot of faith she’ll get the TEA!

When Hailey Bieber appeared on ‘CHD,’ Cooper didn’t shy away from asking about Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber’s relationship and subsequent drama surrounding it.

SelGo and JB dated on-and-off over the course of eight years and were America’s sweethearts. Hailey entered the picture throughout the roller-coaster relationship, but is adamant that she never dated her now-husband while he was with ANY woman.

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The supermodel appeared on the podcast in September.

“The timing was very rapid and very fast… that seemed really drastic and really crazy,” she explained of their personal relationship. “There was a lot happening.”

Cooper asked, “Your husband was in a very public relationship, they were kids. People were obsessed with the idea of them. People were confused on the timeline you’re talking about. ‘Is she a homewrecker?’ Were you ever with Justin romantically at the same time as her (Selena).

“It’s not my character to mess with someone’s relationship. I would just never do that. I was raised better than that,” she said. “I was never with him when he was in a relationship with anybody. That’s the end of it.”

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Hailey and JB got together when she was 18 years old and he was 22 years old.

The “Purpose” singer was involved with SelGo, Hailey, Sofia Richie, and others throughout his “bad boy” phase.

The couple got engaged in 2018 following Selena and Justin’s last-ditch effort to try and make a relationship work in 2017.

Hailey explained a lot of the online hate and backlash comes from diehard fans thinking she “stole” Justin from Selena.

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“It was the right thing for them to close that door. They were not in a relationship at that time. It closed a chapter and I think it was the best thing for him TO move on and be engaged and get married and move on with his life in that way,” the Rhode Beauty creator explained.

Hailey admitted she and the Rare Beauty founder have spoken since all the drama unfolded.

“It’s all respect. It’s all love,” she said while adding there is “no drama personally” between her and Selena.

“Neither of us owe anybody anything except respect. I respect her a lot, and I think there are no expectations [between us]. I respect her,” Hailey said about SelGo. “Everybody on our side knows what happened, and we’re good, and we can walk away from it with clarity and respect.”

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