Andy Cohen is placing the report straight about his longtime friendship with John Mayer.

“I used to be on Howard Stern remaining week and he requested me about my friendship with John Mayer and I said, ‘Yeah, you know,’ stated form of calmly and offhandedly that we love every other,” Cohen shared throughout his radio show, SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live. “It grew to be headline information and the extra it grew to become headline news, the extra butthurt I received over it. Do you comprehend why? Are two guys no longer allowed to say that they’re in love? Are we all so flipped out?”

The Bravo exec is known as the internet’s response over his feedback “weird” earlier than dishing on a longtime friendship with every other straight male friend.

“I suppose it is weird. Do you think, I mean, do not you suppose that most males, I mean, Dave Ansel and I are in love with every other? Dave Ansel used to be the first man I used to be ever in love with,” he explained. “That’s my university roommate and I used to be stunned, by using the way, in week one of freshman yr when he said, ‘Oh my god, I love you, dude. I love you,’ and I used to be like, ‘Wow, this is a hetero man expressing his love for me.'”

“It felt very pure and real, however now not sexual whatsoever,” the Watch What Happens Live host added. “It was once grounded in our friendship, so this is why I simply assume that a friendship of two guys, would not appear like headline information to me.”

Cohen added, “At first, I thought it used to be the type of lazy like, ‘Oh, this is a lazy headline.’ Yes, I offhandedly stated we love every different and then the longer it went, I used to be like, ‘Y’all want to form of, you know, get ahold of yourself.'”

The TV character has been open about his friendship with the Gravity singer, dishing to ET in February 2022 about their “bromance.”

“Gosh, we met over ten years in the past thru our friend, Ricky,” Cohen said. “I ran into them shopping, I do not understand plenty about John Mayer at all, or his tune and I wasn’t even so positive it was once him when we met. And then we went out to Bleaker Street and there had been paparazzi, and I became to Ricky and I go, ‘Is this John Mayer that we’re with?’ And he said, ‘Yes.'”

He continued, “We simply stared there and would see every different around. He constantly had a brilliant spirit. I would say the Grateful Dead received us a lot closer, ’cause I used to be already a foremost deadhead, and he commenced getting into them then think about when your pal starts offevolved taking part in with your preferred band who you thinking you would in no way see again. And now, you can surely tour with them. So, that used to be a large kickstart to the entirety too.”

Cohen’s even gotten Mayer into the Bravo verse with Mayer name-dropping a few housewives in the course of Cohen’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.

“Listen,” Cohen added. “If John Mayer’s calling you out, I assume it is extraordinarily fun.”