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Drugs! Sex! Breakups! Politics! Harry Styles Opens Up More Than Ever For 'Rolling Stone'

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Is this why Harry Styles won’t be in the live action Little Mermaid??

Word was the former One Direction member was finalizing his deal with Disney to costar as Prince Eric opposite Halle Bailey‘s Ariel when all that talk suddenly just evaporated like seawater in the sun.

Not even two weeks later we have this interview which puts on full display why the Sign of the Times singer might not be Mouse House material.

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He let a Rolling Stone writer tag along with him for a few days and capture exactly where the superstar is at right now — and where that is is a place with drugs and sex aplenty. Not that Harry has ever had a squeaky clean image, but we don’t think we’ve ever heard him open up this much about rock and roll’s more infamous trio members.

Get all the highlights from the massive cover story (below)!

(Oh, and speaking of the cover… YOWZA!!!)

On Heartbreak

It begins almost immediately as Harry talks about the new album in no uncertain terms:

“It’s all about having sex and feeling sad.”

The album was done while Harry was still heartbroken over the end of his relationship with French model Camille Rowe.

Harry Styles ex Camille Rowe
Harry Styles’ ex Camille Rowe. / (c) FayesVision/WENN

The breakup is assumed to have been about scheduling, with both young stars being dragged around the world by their careers. All we really do know about the breakup is just one day after we learned about the split we learned Camille was already dating someone newTrue Blood and Big Little Lies star Alexander Skarsgård, who used to date her friend Alexa Chung, who was the one who introduced Harry and Camille in the first place. Huh. Sounds complicated.

Harry’s collaborator Kid Harpoon (real name Tom Hull) says simply and cryptically “the stars didn’t align for them to be a forever thing.” But he will talk about how much the breakup affected Harry, telling also a story illustrating just how crushed the superstar was:

“He went through this breakup that had a big impact on him. I turned up on Day One in the studio, and I had these really nice slippers on. His ex-girlfriend that he was really cut up about, she gave them to me as a present — she bought slippers for my whole family. We’re still close friends with her…

So I turn up at Shangri-La the first day and literally within the first half-hour, he looks at me and says, ‘Where’d you get those slippers? They’re nice.’ I had to say, ‘Oh, um, your ex-girlfriend got them for me.’ He said, ‘Whaaaat? How could you wear those?’ He had a whole emotional journey about her, this whole relationship. But I kept saying, ‘The best way of dealing with it is to put it in these songs you’re writing.'”

And he did. Harry’s most famous ex Taylor Swift isn’t the only one who can use music to exorcise her breakup demons.

Harry explains he won’t talk about specifics of his relationships to the public, he’ll keep that private. But in songs, his deepest, darkest feelings are for the universe to hear:

“It’s not like I’ve ever sat and done an interview and said, ‘So I was in a relationship, and this is what happened.’ Because, for me, music is where I let that cross over. It’s the only place, strangely, where it feels right to let that cross over.”

On Drugs

While he put a lot of that pain into the songs, he also “did a lot of mushrooms” while working on the new album.

Showing the Rolling Stone journalist around Malibu’s famous Shangri-La studios, Harry immediately paints a picture of a classic ’60s style mind-expanding drugfest:

“We’d do mushrooms, lie down on the grass, and listen to Paul McCartney’s Ram in the sunshine. We’d just turn the speakers into the yard.”

And it wasn’t just psychedelics. There were also “chocolate edibles” and liquor:

“You’d hear the blender going, and think, ‘So we’re all having frozen margaritas at 10 a.m. this morning.'”

But the ‘shrooms were, strangely, the most dangerous for Harry. Pointing to a spot in the studio, Harry recounts:

“This is where I was standing when we were doing mushrooms and I bit off the tip of my tongue. So I was trying to sing with all this blood gushing out of my mouth. So many fond memories, this place.”

WTF?! He has to be exaggerating, right?

We feel like we would have heard about Harry Styles’ tongue being maimed, it would have been international news, a day of mourning, probably a huge insurance payout.

Speaking of cashing in, there’s a big question still hanging over the head of all 1D members…

On A One Direction Reunion

When asked the tough question about whether 1D would ever reunite, Harry gives a hopeful but very non-committal answer:

“I don’t know. I don’t think I’d ever say I’d never do it again, because I don’t feel that way. If there’s a time when we all really want to do it, that’s the only time for us to do it, because I don’t think it should be about anything else other than the fact that we’re all like, ‘Hey, this was really fun. We should do this again.’ But until that time, I feel like I’m really enjoying making music and experimenting. I enjoy making music this way too much to see myself doing a full switch, to go back and do that again. Because I also think if we went back to doing things the same way, it wouldn’t be the same, anyway.”

Are they still friends?

“Yeah, I think so. Definitely. Because above all else, we’re the people who went through that. We’re always going to have that, even if we’re not the closest. And the fact is, just because you’re in a band with someone doesn’t mean you have to be best friends. That’s not always how it works. Just because Fleetwood Mac fight, that doesn’t mean they’re not amazing. I think even in the disagreements, there’s always a mutual respect for each other — we did this really cool thing together, and we’ll always have that. It’s too important to me to ever be like, ‘Oh, that’s done.’ But if it happens, it will happen for the right reasons.”

One Direction once upon a time
One Direction, once upon a time. / (c) Sean Thorton/WENN

On His Female Fans

“They’re the most honest — especially if you’re talking about teenage girls, but older as well. They have that bulls**t detector. You want honest people as your audience. We’re so past that dumb outdated narrative of ‘Oh, these people are girls, so they don’t know what they’re talking about.’ They’re the ones who know what they’re talking about. They’re the people who listen obsessively. They f**king own this s**t. They’re running it.”

On Being A Feminist

“I think ultimately feminism is thinking that men and women should be equal, right? People think that if you say ‘I’m a feminist,’ it means you think men should burn in hell and women should trample on their necks. No, you think women should be equal. That doesn’t feel like a crazy thing to me. I grew up with my mum and my sister — when you grow up around women, your female influence is just bigger. Of course men and women should be equal. I don’t want a lot of credit for being a feminist. It’s pretty simple. I think the ideals of feminism are pretty straightforward.”

On Getting Political

Harry showed support for the LGBT community, for Black Lives Matter, for gun control at his shows with large flags and stickers. He explains:

“I want to make people feel comfortable being whatever they want to be. Maybe at a show you can have a moment of knowing that you’re not alone. I’m aware that as a white male, I don’t go through the same things as a lot of the people that come to the shows. I can’t claim that I know what it’s like, because I don’t. So I’m not trying to say, ‘I understand what it’s like.’ I’m just trying to make people feel included and seen.

It’s not about me trying to champion the cause, because I’m not the person to do that. It’s just about not ignoring it, I guess. I was a little nervous to do that because the last thing I wanted was for it to feel like I was saying, ‘Look at me! I’m the good guy!’ I didn’t want anyone who was really involved in the movement to think, ‘What the f**k do you know?’ But then when I did it, I realized people got it. Everyone in that room is on the same page and everyone knows what I stand for. I’m not saying I understand how it feels. I’m just trying to say, ‘I see you.'”

Huh.

Harry may not be Disney material, but maybe he’s a role model for kids after all??

He’s certainly dreamy enough to be a Disney prince! Here’s one more amazing pic from his RS spread:

[Image via IPA/FayesVision/WENN/Avalon.]

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Aug 26, 2019 12:56pm PDT