This week’s OK! Magazine has an interesting twist on the ridiculous John Mayer interview from Playboy. Because covers with women usually sell better than covers with men, they’re focusing on how John Mayer “betrayed” Jessica Simpson by enthusing about how great their sex life was and how he was addicted to her like a drug. He also went on at length about how much he still cared for Jennifer Aniston and didn’t want her reading his comments on Simpson, but it was like a backhanded compliment meant to highlight the differences between the two women.

So far, Simpson has only maybe-referred to John’s interview with a brief tweet that read “interesting day so far…hmm…at least i am boxing 2-a-days [sic] this week.” (Is she boxing twice a day or 2 days?) According to OK! she’s annoyed that “John would sink so low,” but they’re probably just guessing. The way I imagine it, she laughed and shrugged her shoulders at the stupid sh*t that Jon said. She knows this guy well and she’s familiar with the level of crap he’s capable of spouting, even though she probably took it super seriously at the time. Plus, the story about how he was so addicted to her that he wanted to “snort” her was quickly eclipsed by the other, some say racist, quotes in his interview. Overall he really needs to keep some secrets for his therapist. Did it bother Jessica, though? OK! says so, although they probably should have gone with the angle that Jennifer Aniston was either mad or touched by Mayer’s interview. He did say “I love Jen so much” even though he also said she was hoping that technology would go back to 1998 at the height of her fame.

Jessica Simpson was stunned on Feb. 10 when she awoke to a flood of texts, e-mails and Tweets asking if she had seen ex-flame John Mayer’s Playboy interview. That would be the cringingly frank spill-all in which he likened her to “sexual napalm” and “crack cocaine.”

“Jessica was shocked,” a pal of the singer tells OK!. “She was really pissed off at first when she heard about it, then she read the whole interview, and the first thing that she said was, ‘I’m annoyed John would sink so low.’ ”

Facing a barrage of criticism, John, 32, expressed regret that night at a concert in Nashville. “I quit the media game,” he told the crowd at Sommet Center, voice choked with emotion. “I’m out. I’m done. I just want to play my guitar… I completey forgot about the people that I love and that love me.”

For more on Jessica and John’s show-down, and how she’ll confront him, pick up the new issue of OK! — on sale everywhere Thursday!

[From OK!]

I don’t believe all that. Maybe Simpson was mortified at Mayer’s quotes, but maybe she was secretly pleased too. He went on about how great their sex life was and while he mentioned Aniston he didn’t say much about their connection. Jess is learning to be her own person and she could be dating Billy Corgan, judging by recent rumors and some choice quotes in her Allure interview. She also said that she didn’t learn anything from her past relationships and that Mayer wasn’t the one who influenced her to become a brunette during their relationship. She’s so over the douche.

Star Magazine has a similar take on Mayer’s interview, except they double-down with both Jessica and Jen “stabbed in the heart” by the interview. They say that Simpson is “angry and embarrassed” while Aniston is “taking this really personally.” I don’t know. I would think both of these women would just be relieved to be rid of the ass, but I’m not having all my dirty laundry strung up in public so I can’t tell. Mayer manages to make all his ex girlfriends look bad just by opening his mouth. It almost doesn’t matter if he name drops them or not.

Covers courtesy of CoverAwards.