Andy Cohen, despite his proximity to a certain ex of Taylor Swift's, John Mayer, has no personal grudge against the "The Life of a Showgirl" singer. Despite the long-standing friendship between them, he recently expressed his desire to have Taylor as a guest on his Bravo talk show during a fan Q&A at BravoCon in Las Vegas. "I would love to," he said. "She hasn't said yes before. I don't know, some people consider me a little dangerous."
Nonetheless, he's not giving up on the idea, adding, "I would love it, tell her people!"
As for Taylor's relationship with John, she recently confirmed that any remaining animosity has long been buried. "I'm 33 years old," Taylor said before performing "Dear John" at The Eras Tour in 2023. "I don't care about anything that happened to me when I was 19 except for the songs that I wrote and the memories we made together."
At the time, Taylor was about to release Speak Now (Taylor's Version), which included several songs about her short-lived 2009 romance with John. "I'm not putting this album out so you should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I might have written a song about 14 billion years ago," she continued. "I do not care, we've all grown up. We're good."
John, on the other hand, issued a cryptic "please be kind" message on Instagram just hours before Taylor's rerecorded 2011 album dropped in July 2023. The now 48-year-old has previously said that being name-dropped in such a heartbreaking song "humiliated" him. "I never got an e-mail. I never got a phone call," he told Rolling Stone in 2012. "I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I'd already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you've ever been, someone kicked you even lower?"
Indeed, John—rumored to have penned his "Paper Doll" in response to Taylor's songs—called her nearly seven-minute track "cheap songwriting." "I know she's the biggest thing in the world, and I'm not trying to sink anybody's ship, but I think it's abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, 'Wait till he gets a load of this!'" John added. "That's bulls--t."
