TORONTO — Joe Jonas of the now-defunct pop rock band Jonas Brothers has opened up about losing his virginity to actress Ashley Greene, smoking weed with Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato, and working for Mickey Mouse.
In an interview published Sunday in New York magazine, the 24-year-old singer admitted he lost his virginity when he was 20, while dating Greene.
“I did other stuff before then,” he explained. “I’m glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, ‘That girl was bats*** crazy. I’m glad I didn’t go there.'”
Jonas said Greene was his first serious relationship and lasted about a year.
“After Ashley, I took two or three years to just be single. I was hooking up and having fun,” he recalled. “Now I’m with someone I really care about. We get each other.”
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In what could be construed as a shot at his ex Taylor Swift — who has famously written songs about her relationships — Jonas said he has no resentment against his former girlfriends.
He explained: “I’m not going to disparage anyone I was in a relationship with—only I might put it in my music a little bit, and hint at it, and tease it here and there, just enough for the fans and the people who really know the story. But I’m not going to openly say, ‘Yeah, actually, this person is a b****, and she did this to me.’ I don’t feel the need to do that to sell records.”
Jonas also revealed he was 17 or 18 when he first smoked marijuana — at the urging of Cyrus and Lovato. He said he currently smokes only occasionally but enjoys wine or a vodka-soda.
Jonas appears to have bittersweet memories of being signed to Disney. He and brothers Kevin and Nick went along with much of what the family-friendly company demanded because “we were terrified that it could all be taken away from us at any moment.”
Jonas wasn’t particular fond of the siblings’ Disney Channel TV series.
“Some of the writing on it was terrible. It just ended up being some weird slapstick humour that only a 10-year-old would laugh at,” he told New York. “They took out the kissing scene that Nick had. I had to shave every day because they wanted me to pretend like I was 16 when I was 20.”
Jonas said the brothers received training by Disney on how to handle invasive or personal questions from reporters.
“I hated it,” he admitted. “They’d teach you how to change the subject, whenever you were asked an uncomfortable question, by saying something like, ‘Oh, that reminds me of my dog! I have a great story about my dog!’
“Playing dumb is the best way of getting out of anything.”
Jonas said Disney vetoed song lyrics that were even slightly sexual.
“It could be the most innocent reference, like ‘I’m alone in a room with you,’ and it would have to go. It felt like we couldn’t be creative, so we stopped listening to them and just started handing s*** in.”
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