Last night, John Mayer couldn’t help but say what he needed to say.
The Grammy winner, whose Twitter page is at this moment largely occupied by a detailed apology for using the N-word during his already graphically informative sit-down for Playboy’s March issue, broke down Wednesday during the “Gravity” portion of his show in Nashville.
Near the end of the concert, he stopped playing, apologizing to his bandmates for the interruption.
“I quit the media game. I’m out. I’m done,” a choked-up Mayer told the audience at the Sommet Center, an eyewitness tells E! News. “I just want to play my guitar.”
Then, after a lengthy pause, he returned to his guitar solo.
His onstage sentiment resembled his last tweet from the day: “I just wanted to play the guitar for people. Everything else just sort of popped up and I improvised, and kept doubling down on it…”
As he had just reminded Twitter user “adilla”: “They don’t make rehab centers for being an a-hole.”
In case you don’t want to watch the video, here’s John’s apology:
“it’s been difficult because in my quest to be clever… in the quest to be clever and try to slither out of what i perceived to be constant persecution or somebody trying to pin me, which may or may not ever really be happening, but i think that it is a lot of the time when it’s actually not. in the quest to be clever, i completely forgot about the people that i love and that love me. and as i have begun to (???) a whirlpool of selfishness, and greediness and arrogance…and thinking if i just continue to be speedy and witty and pull together as many fast words and phrases as i could, that i would be clever enough to buy myself another day without anybody pinning me down and saying ‘you’re a creep’. and when i should have just given that up and played the guitar… so i decided i would try to be as clever as possible all the time. and i did that at the expense of people that i love and that feels absolutely terrible. it feels worse than any headline i thought i could get my way out of. and i think it’s important that you know that everybody on this stage is here playing with me not because they condone what i say in any interview… they are not on this stage because they support what i said, they’re on this stage because they support myself as a possible future grown-up. and maybe they see something that i don’t… so maybe i need to take a break from trying to be clever and spend a little time looking at what they see. cause they’ve done an unbelievable thing standing on this stage and standing by my side tonight. it’s just not worth being clever…. i’m out …. just wanna play my guitar … ”
Actress Kelly Preston spent the day with her daughter Ella Travolta touring the amazing city of Paris, France on February 10, 2010 while John Travolta was promoting his new film “From Paris With Love” elsewhere. Kelly and Ella were all smiles as they walked from site to site with an entourage of ladies.
He’s never been short of female fans, but Ewan McGregor appears to have found a close friend in his latest co-star.
McGregor, who has been married for 15 years, and French actress Mélanie Laurent turned heads as they strolled through a freezing Paris arm in arm last night.
The pair recently finished shooting upcoming movie Beginners together, and it appears their friendship is still going strong.
They had enjoyed a night out dining with friends at the French capital’s luxury Hyatt hotel, before leaving to brave the cold winter night together.
McGregor married production designer Eve Mavrakis, who is also French, in 1995. The couple live in north London with their three daughters.
Laurent, 26, is best known for her critically acclaimed performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, released last year.
Beginners finished shooting in December and is currently in post-production.
In the new film, McGregor plays a man rocked by two shock announcements from his elderly father, played by Christopher Plummer, who reveals that he has terminal cancer and is gay.
McGregor rose to international fame in 1996 playing the role of Renton in the cult British film Trainspotting.
It’s hard to believe that it has been a whopping 23 years since Debbie Gibson ruled the music charts as a teenage pop princess. After all, with her 40th birthday just around the corner, the star looks hotter than she ever has. And, having recently lost almost 20 pounds thanks to a diet devised by her boyfriend, Dr. Rutledge Taylor, she’s in better shape than many women half her age. “I finally feel like my true self, physically and emotionally,” Debbie tells In Touch. “Everything is in balance. And I feel better naked than I ever have!”
ITW: You look fantastic! But you never appeared to be particularly overweight.
DG: I was always so active, especially when I was busy performing on Broadway. I could eat macaroni and cheese during every intermission, and I wouldn’t gain weight. But my metabolism has definitely slowed down, so some weight came on really fast.
ITW: So why did you want to lose weight?
DG: I was hiding it really well, but I was a good 15 pounds heavier than I wanted to be. People should focus on good health first and foremost, but I realized that I feel best when I’m at my leanest, and I wanted to get a grip on this when I was only a little overweight, as opposed to letting it get away from me. So, I decided to try my boyfriend’s [Dr. Taylor] program, which is called Better Than Lipo.
ITW: How much do you weigh now?
DG: I’m at 114 pounds. I was okay at my previous weight, but I felt like my inner diva did not match my outer diva.
ITW: And how do you feel?
DG: I feel hotter and more in control. It’s even improved my sex life. You shouldn’t get your whole self-worth from how you look, but at 39, I think it’s okay to focus on the outside a bit if it makes you feel good.
Source, Photo Credit: STEPHEN DANELIAN/ IN TOUCH WEEKLY
