Eric Andre has now revealed what he and Emily Ratajkowski were thinking when they released *that* X-rated Valentine’s Day shot.
The story is as crazy as one could anticipate, with liquor, nudity, and plenty of laughs.
Eric, 39, claimed in a recent interview that he and Emily, 31, both believed the photo was ‘iconic’ and had to be shared with the rest of the world.
‘Emily popped up and took that picture. I was really in the moment, I was drinking wine, she started dying laughing, and she was like, “I have to take a picture of this”,’ said the comedian.
‘She took the picture, and we both began laughing,’ he told Rolling Stone.
‘She was like, “This is iconic” — she kept saying “iconic”. We both agreed this was a beautiful image that we had to share with the world.’
While the snapshot was undeniably one of the most memorable photographs in celebrity internet history, it appears that the comedian’s romance with Emily fizzled out.
Emily intimated that she and Eric had called it quits a few days after the photo was uploaded.
‘What should you do when a situation ship ends?’ asked mum-of-one Emily in a TikTok posted days later.
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Eric looked to be Emily’s second romance after her divorce from spouse Sebastian Bear-McClard in September of last year, following the actress’s November relationship to SNL actor Pete Davidson.
Emily, who has a two-year-old son named Sylvester with her producer ex, has previously spoken out about men’s penchant to let her down.
In her High Low with EmRata podcast, she revealed that males think they desire an independent woman, but once they get one, they feel emasculated.
‘They’re like, “You’re special. You’ve done it,”’ she said.
The star went on: ‘They love it, then [they] slowly get emasculated, and they don’t know what to do with those feelings, and they resent you, and then they start to tear you down. And then you’re just back to square one.
‘I feel like a lot of men who truly think they want a strong woman actually don’t know how to handle it and they don’t know what it means for their own identity.’