The 'Your Body Is a Wonderland' singer comes to the show
hosted by Ellen DeGeneres to chat about his dating life and his health after he
took a break from singing to heal his ailing vocal cords.
Ellen DeGeneres wasted no time to ask John Mayer a
sensitive subject when the 35-year-old singer visited "The Ellen DeGeneres
Show" this week. Less than two weeks after splitting for the second time
from singer Katy Perry, Mayer talked about it in public for the first time.
"The last time I saw you, you were at the
Grammys," said DeGeneres. "You were sitting on the same row as Portia
and I with Katy. I know Katy, she is a good friend as well, and I know that
since then, you're not together any more."
"Correct," Mayer confirmed the breakup.
However, he insisted on keeping the details private. "Listen, it was a
very private relationship going in. It was a private relationship during, and
it's a private relationship, still," he said.
"I can understand asking the question based on some
previous answers I have given, but I have finally learned how to put the wall
between one thing and the other. I've been much happier since then. I'm on the
same journey as everyone else. Coupling is a tricky thing," he continued.
DeGeneres later brought up a question about his vocal
health. Last year, Mayer was diagnosed with a granuloma (severe tissue
inflammation on his vocal chords) that kept him quiet for over a year.
"Half of it is over-use and singing and singing and singing," he
explained. "The other stuff is you know, what you put into your
body."
Mayer then revealed that his own bad habit of drinking
scotch contributed to his ailing vocal cords. "It didn't help that I
really loved, loved, loved scotch," he said. "It's just like applying
poison to your body. It's like applying a shellac of poison. It's just
delicious, wonderful poison, that makes you not care how late you're out til or
where you're going. I had to really say, 'I like singing and writing more than
I like delicious scotch.' So I had to really dial it down. And I'm a little
more boring now."
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