You've heard the rumors, right? Well, Oklahoma's own Carrie Underwood sets the record straight.
"I never met the guy!" she told me over coffee recently. Kidding -- it's in her interview for Elle magazine's December issue, of which she graces the cover.
"I'm sure he's lovely," she tells Elle. "I'm sure he's a great guy. He made America proud! But I never met him, I never mentioned him in an interview, I never mentioned him in that way to anybody that I know. That was one of those completely, totally, utterly fabricated lies that came out of nowhere."
Carrie also talks about why she tries to keep her love life out of the public eye, as well as her comment that a taken Tony Romo still calls her.
Here are some more excerpts from Carrie's chat with Elle:
On dealing with celebrity: "I knew what I was signing up for, and I'm not complaining at all. I've learned how to deal with it, and my life is great, I'm a happy person. What are you going to do? Give it all up? No!" Amen, Sister.
On the drama surrounding celebrities: "All celebrities have to be involved in drama -- or they're not celebrities! There must be something wrong with 'em!" Again, amen.
On Mr. Romo still calling her: "It was just something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or to stir up anything, because I'm just not about drama. At all. I might be mad, too, if somebody said my boyfriend was calling some other girl. So I can definitely see where she would be coming from. But I haven't talked to him since, like, May." Good to know. So simmer down, Miz Simpson.
On her fantasy of meeting someone who doesn't really know who she is: "If I meet somebody, and they don't know anything about me, that's like, 'Oh, you're going to actually get to know me a little bit before you go
Google me?'"
On fashion: "I've been trying to dress myself a little better now just because I feel like people are disappointed when they meet me, and they're like, 'Oh, her hair's in a ponytail; she doesn't have any makeup
on.' So I've been trying to, I guess, meet people's expectations a little bit more and actually look like a real person that has a real job." Carrie, I say keep wearin' your ponytail, Girl. You're gorgeous!
On being a HUGE fan of Jason Ashley Wright: "He's awesome! Please read his Tuesday column and blog daily, as I can't make it through life without it. Please drink Vitaminwater." OK, that last bit might not be in the magazine, but whatev.
Read more in the December issue of Elle, which is on stands now.
Peace, love and Carrie ... xoxo
