John Mellencamp is the first to admit he didn’t treat his ex-fiancée Meg Ryan with the respect she deserved.
“She’s a great girl. I’m just a s–tty boyfriend,” the “Hurts So Good” singer told Esquire while participating in the magazine’s “What I’ve Learned” interview series Tuesday.
Still, Mellencamp added, “I love Meg Ryan. I went with her for 10 years. She doesn’t love me so much.”
The rock star, 71, and the “When Harry Met Sally” actress, 61, started dating in 2011 following their respective divorces from model Elaine Irwin and actor Dennis Quaid.
“We were so f–king lost,” Mellencamp recalled of the beginning of their romance.
“We didn’t know how to do anything. I’ve never checked out of a hotel by myself. Her and I went to a grocery store, and they wanted our credit card, and we looked at each other and said, ‘Here it is,’ and they said, ‘No, you’ve got to put it in this thing,’ and we went, ‘Then what happens?’ We laughed at how stupid we are, so hard we cried.”
The pair broke up in 2014 due to the distance between them (Mellencamp lived in Indiana while Ryan was based in New York).
The “Jack & Diane” crooner infamously proclaimed on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2017 that the “Sleepless in Seattle” star hated him “to death,” but they reunited later that year.
The stars announced their engagement in 2018, only to split again the following year.
Mellencamp feels Ryan has come a lot farther than he has since they went their separate ways for the final time.
“I think she’s learned how to do everything, and I’ve learned how to do nothing,” he candidly confessed to Esquire.
The Grammy winner has been married three times and has five children, including former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Teddi Mellencamp.
Ryan, for her part, has two kids, including actor Jack Quaid.
