James Arthur has shared his regret at saying his fling with Rita Ora turned him into a sex addict.
The X Factor star, 33, first claimed they'd had an affair in a freestyle rap he performed in 2013 and previously said he "turned into a s**g" following the romance.
He also spoke about Rita in his 2017 autobiography Back To The Boy, but he's now admitted that he shouldn't have made the comments and wouldn't say things like that now.
Speaking to The Sun, James confessed: "When I look back at that there's certain things I wouldn't have shared or have explained in the way that I did.
"If I could stop the production of the book now I probably would because there's stuff that has affected family relationships, not long term, but at the time it hurt people.
"There's things I shared about relationships where I should have considered the people involved a bit more, I think."
Rita Ora's rep declined to comment went contacted by The Mirror.
James told the Evening Standard in 2016: "Me and Rita were seeing each other on-and-off for a few months.
"Maybe it was bad for her image to be seen with me. I was a little bitter about that because she’d said she had a lot of feelings for me."
He later claimed that the fling left him having sex with hundreds of women, and sometimes would have sex with three women a day.
The singer said: "If I'm honest, I became a bit of a s**g after Rita. I was chatting to hundreds of women, and I started to sleep with so many of them I lost count.
"They were usually the same type – Babestation girls or glamour models.
"If I saw someone I fancied I'd contact her on social media and tell her blatantly I wanted to have sex.
"It was ridiculously easy. There would be no emotional attachment and it would be just pure sex, and with one or two exceptions that was how it was."
In his freestyle rap, which was performed on Radio 1Xtra, James said: "Some people's auras [Ora's] and demeanours can deceive us, what they really want is a piece of your penis."
He later said it was just wordplay.
