John Legend says he gave up his cheating ways for his wife of nearly seven years, Chrissy Teigen.
Speaking on actor Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert, the 41-year-old “All of Me” singer said he struggled to be faithful to women when he was younger.
“What happened for me personally is, you go through a lot of your life, like your teens, and I was like the 'two years younger kid than everybody' in high school and college, and so I just didn’t get a lot of girls when I was younger,” Legend recalled.
“And when I started to get that attention, I loved it. Just ate it up.”
Legend said he found a way to rationalize his cheating in early relationships. “I escaped technically cheating by kind of keeping my relationship ill-defined,” he explained. “But it was really cheating. You can try to get off on technicalities ... I was dishonest and selfish and just enjoyed this new attention I was getting.”
The singer said he became a one-woman man after meeting Teigen in 2007.
“At a certain point you just realize, like, you're happier being honest,” he said, “and you're happier being faithful and being in love with one person. At a certain point, I just decided that that person was Chrissy and I ... just decided I wasn't going to mess with anybody else anymore.”
The two married in 2013 and are parents to daughter Luna, 4, and son Miles, 2.
Legend said monogamy is just easier.
“Your whole life is lighter. Like, when you're able to be honest with the person and, like, you aren't hiding texts ... your mind is freer. Everything is better,” he explained.
“Obviously people have to get to that place and they have to realize that the person they're with is the person that they're ready to do that for, but once you figure that out, it's so freeing.”