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While John Mayer is dishing the dirt on his sex life with ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson, rocker Billy Corgan is coming to her defense.

“He’s trying to destroy his career,” the Smashing Pumpkins frontman, 42, tells Rolling Stone. “Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction, some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he’s trying to blow it up.”

Corgan related himself to the loose-lipped singer, who he calls “a talented guy,” saying that it is “hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground – speaking as somebody who’s done it.”

In the March issue of Playboy, Mayer, 32, sounded off on his two-year relationship with Simpson, who he said was “crazy” in bed and compared her to “sexual napalm.”

“I think for any person who has celebrity to sort of drop rocks at somebody else’s feet like that, there’s things you should really just keep your mouths shut on,” Corgan said. “There’s things that should just be left alone.”

Though he remained mum on whether or not he ever dated Simpson, Corgan previously told Rolling Stone that he had love for the bubbly 29-year-old blond.

“Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that,” he said. “My goal in life is to love whoever I think is worth loving, and I think if people knew her like I knew her, they would love her like I do. It’s really simple.”

Despite her failed relationships with Nick Lachey, Tony Romo and Mayer, Simpson still hopes to find love one day.

“Hopefully I can find a man that understands my life and understands my purpose,” she said at IHeartRadio presents An Evening with Jessica Simpson in New York City. “I hope I don’t die alone, that’s for damn sure.”

John Mayer is still apologizing for his recent Playboy interview, but that doesn’t mean he’s cleaning up his act.

The embattled pop singer performed two sold-out shows Thursday and Friday at Madison Square Garden, where he again issued a mea culpa for his off-color comments in the men’s mag.

“I hate to come off like an ass-, and thank you guys for believing that I am not an ass. Never, ever in my entire life did I ever think that it would be a good idea to be an ass,” Mayer stuttered to a house packed with loyal fans. “It’s a clean ‘me’ now, people. Clean me.”

Well, not quite: Mayer spent the weekend partying at NoLita hot spot La Esquina – which is near the 2,500-square-foot SoHo apartment he owns – and acting, well, less-than-gentlemanly.

“He was drinking and saying vulgar things to the girls at the bar,” says a spy. “He was hitting on one pretty brunette in particular, but she found him slimy because he was being so over-the-top.”

We hear women aren’t the only challenge the crooner can’t seem to navigate: Friends say that even before the Playboy fiasco, he was having a love-hate relationship with the media.

“After every interview he gave, John would agonize over it and mentally kick himself over everything he said,” says an insider. “He would swear it would be the last time, but it never was, and it became a never-ending cycle.”

That cycle came to a head with the Playboy interview – in which Mayer talked about everything from his sex life with Jessica Simpson to his love of porn. And let’s not forget about those crass comments that enraged African-Americans. “He always thinks he’s being funny at the time but doesn’t understand it’s actually offensive,” says a close friend. “He’s very smart – he just needs to realize that not everyone finds him funny.”

A female friend, meanwhile, suggests Mayer just needs to find the right woman – if he doesn’t scare her off first.

“All he wants is to find the perfect girl,” says the gal pal. “But he gets infatuated with women really quickly, and he’s always asking other people for advice on what to do. It’s like he becomes fixated on whoever he’s dating.”

Meanwhile, another friend makes a valid point: “Who’s going to date him if he keeps pulling these stunts?”

Certainly not the young stunner at La Esquina. “She thought he was being really disrespectful,” says the spy. “She definitely didn’t go home with that sleaze.”

The Grammy-winner took to his Twitter page to make amends for his latest inflammatory comments – this time, in the March edition of Playboy.

In it, he calls former girlfriend Jessica Simpson “sexual napalm” and says Jennifer Aniston is a technophobe who wishes she could go back to her career prime in 1998. He also uses the N-word.

On Twitter Wednesday afternoon, he apologized for the racial epithet and said he has to stop “trying to be so raw in interviews.”

“It started as an attempt to not let the waves of criticism get to me, but it’s gotten out of hand and I’ve created somewhat of a monster,” Mayer tweeted. “I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don’t have the stomach for it.”

There were plenty who didn’t have the stomach for his remarks in Playboy, in which he talked about Simpson’s sexuality, his problems with Aniston, his love of porn, why he doesn’t date black women and being beloved by the black community.

“Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?’ And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass,’” he said, then added: “But I said, ‘I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’”

Mayer said he should have never have used the N-word in any context and will never say it again.

“And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged,” he said.

The racial comments were hardly the only explosive comments in the interview. He said he still loved Aniston, but then noting their age difference (she just turned 41), he said: “I can’t change the fact that I need to be 32.”

He also said she didn’t appreciate new technology: “The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, ‘These are the new rules,’” he said.

Of Simpson, he talked about her sexual ability, and said: “That girl, for me, is a drug … That girl is like crack cocaine to me.”

In the interview, he also explained why he didn’t date black women, comparing his genitals to “a white supremacist.”

Mayer – known for his loose tongue – has made a habit out of outlandish comments. Last month, he gave an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked openly about his love life, including sex with other women – and himself.

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The ‘Gravity’ singer told the screaming audience at the Q The Music Club show, held at London’s Hard Rock Cafe, he planned to impregnate someone straight after the show.

He said: “I’m getting someone pregnant tonight.”

The 32-year-old musician went on to suggest he would never have a “hard time” convincing his fans to sleep with him.

He continued: “I’m going to do a cover by another artist who has a hard time making it happen in the UK. I’m not saying I have a hard time making it happen – I could make it happen with any of you ladies tonight. Someone’s getting preggers. Someone’s going to have my baby tonight.

“It only takes nine months and eight hours from now. We should f**k on a Leap year or on Easter Island.”

John has dated a string of famous women, including Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

During Monday’s concert the American musician also admitted he had recently learned how to make a “pot brownie” – a chocolate cake laced with marijuana.

He said: “I learned how to make a pot brownie. I went on Google. But then I realised the people who put up the recipes are stoners and they were writing a lot about the planet before they actually gave out the recipe. I made them and fell asleep. They should put them in a bottle and manufacture them instead of sleeping pills.”

The seven-time Grammy Award-winning Mayer treated his fans to a rare and intimate performance, Thursday December 10th at Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios. This exclusive performance features a showcase of his new album “Battle Studies” and gives fans a unique opportunity to learn more about the inspiration behind his music.

VH1 today has also launched its new Storytellers site at Storytellers.VH1.com. The site is a place where artists and fans can share personal stories behind the songs and artists that they feel connected to and have been inspired by. Fans are encouraged to tell their story about the music that matters most to them by submitting a written testimonial or by uploading a video of themselves. Which artist is John Mayer inspired by? Go to Storytellers.VH1.com to view John’s video about George Harrison and his music.

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The notorious charmer was spotted chatting up Kim Kardashian in the lobby of Sirius XM here earlier this week. Mayer, who’s been linked to a string of famous women, including Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson, tried his magic on curvy Kim while taking a break from sound checking for his acoustic performance on Sirius’ Coffee House channel.

A spy said, “They talked closely for several minutes.” But to no avail — Kardashian is happily dating New Orleans Saint star Reggie Bush.

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Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson may be getting back together – with the help of an unlikely friend.

John Mayer was spotted playing relationship counselor to the exes when they ran into each other at NYC hot spot Butter on Monday night.

And Mayer may have worked a miracle.

“Lindsay and Sam didn’t arrive together,” says a partygoer. “Lindsay walked in, and the two said a quick hello, but then Linds went to the table where John was sitting.”

According to the source, Sam eventually came over to the table but sat far away on the opposite side – much to LiLo’s dismay.

“Lindsay looked upset that Sam hadn’t come over to her, and she started whispering to John, who looked like he was trying to calm her down,” says the snitch. “She looked pretty angry. Then John got up and went to talk to Sam.”

We’re not sure what he crooned to the famed deejay, but it must have been pretty convincing: Ronson got up with Mayer and went over to La Lohan just a few minutes later.

The source notes that after Mayer’s intervention, the tumultuous twosome spent much of the night talking and laughing. La Lohan even ended the evening looking content – and (dare we say it?) stable.

“Lindsay seemed happier than she has in ages,” the spy says. “Sam eventually got up and deejayed for a while, and Lindsay kept standing up and looking over to the deejay booth, smiling.”

In between watching Ronson, Lohan hung out with the likes of movie critic Ben Lyons and singer/songwriter Blake Ian.

Mayer, having done his good deed for the week, ducked out before Linds and Sam did – but not without a hug from LiLo and a more-than-friendly goodbye from a scantily clad blond.

“Lindsay and Sam both stayed past 3,” the partygoer says. “They didn’t leave together, but they definitely ended the night on good terms.”

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