John Mayer took to Twitter to apologize for using the N-word in an interview with Playboy magazine. In the interview, in which he talks about his great sex with Jessica Simpson, he also used the racial epithet. The whole section of the interview is at the bottom, so scroll down to read it. Over three Tweets Wednesday afternoon Mayer wrote: Re: using the 'N word' in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word.