No wonder Jennifer Aniston received so much affection from John Mayer on Oscar night.
It turns out that while the singer was happy to provide “moral support” to his girl at the Academy Awards, he was also “very, very nervous” about attending.
“It’s not my world, the Oscar thing,” Mayer told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM show Wednesday. “But [Jen] was so sweet to me that night, because you can go from a Grammy winner to a water boy when you walk into the Kodak Theatre on Oscar night.” He added, “While it was really, really fun, the whole thing is very odd to me.”
“I basically stepped into the picture frame of Hollywood,” he explained. “And you have to really be with someone you know has your back in that situation, and she did, and it was really great.”
As for why the normally low-key couple chose such a high-profile event to go so public with their relationship, John told Ryan, “At some point, you feeel comfortable and say this is the choice I want to make. I think a year is a pretty good period of time with which to say, yeah, let’s go have a really good time at the Oscars.”
Jennifer Aniston went face to face with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the 81st annual Academy Awards Sunday in Hollywood. It is first time all three have been in the same room since Pitt and Aniston split in 2005.
Along with Jolie’s Kung Fu Panda costar Jack Black, the Valentino-clad Aniston (who skipped the red carpet at Sunday’s show) presented Best Animated Feature.
They originally stood to the side of the stage.
When Black made a joke about how all Pixar films win Oscars, Aniston said, “I apologize Mr. Katzenberg [Jeffrey Katzenberg is the co-founder of Dreamworks], I don’t know why we let him out of the house.”
The camera then panned to Jolie, who laughed.
When Aniston announced the nominees, she moved to the center of the stage, right in front of Jolie and Pitt. When the lights were down, Aniston smiled directly at Pitt, but not at Jolie.
Aniston then presented Best Short Film; both Pitt and Jolie kept huge smiles on their faces the entire time.
As Aniston walked off stage, Jolie and Pitt both clapped.
Black told Us afterwards, “Jen did fine. She’s a pro!”
Aniston and her date for the night, John Mayer, sat behind and to the side of Pitt and Jolie.
Asked by Us earlier in the night if she was nervous, Aniston told Us, “Yes!”