A highly publicized breakup was not what Calvin Harris came for.
On the heels of his ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift reportedly pulling the plug on her newest romance with Tom Hiddleston, a new interview revealed the Scottish DJ's misgivings on how his own split from the 1989-born singer had unfolded — as he admitted “when it ended, all hell broke loose.”
“It’s very difficult when something I consider so personal plays out very publicly,” Harris told British GQ for its October cover story.
“The aftermath of the relationship was way more heavily publicized than the relationship itself. When we were together, we were very careful for it not to be a media circus. She respected my feelings in that sense. I’m not good at being a celebrity.”
He went on to call the Twitter rant he'd slung at his ex in July — accusing Swift and her team of trying to make him “look bad” amid reports that she’d secretly written his new hit “This Is What You Came For” — “completely the wrong instinct.”
“I was protecting what I see as my one talent in the world being belittled,” Harris told the magazine of the Rihanna-centric track, which Swift penned under the name Nils Sjoberg. “It felt like things were piling on top of me, and that was when I snapped.”
“Now I see that Twitter thing as a result of me succumbing to pressure. It took me a minute to realize that none of that matters. I’m a positive guy,” Harris said. “For both of us it was the wrong situation. It clearly wasn’t right, so it ended, but all of the stuff that happened afterwards...”
Harris, 35, and Swift, 26, split in early June after 15 months of dating. The former country singer moved swiftly along to her heavily photographed (and apparently doomed) romance with Hiddleston, while Harris has been linked to R&B singer Tinashe and Mexican actress Eiza González.
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