The Black Keys on 'a**hole' Jack White and why TMZ should be ashamed

The Black Keys' Patrick Carney has discussed his public dislike for Jack White, following an incident in 2013 when emails from White, hitting out at Dan Auerbach, were leaked online.

Private emails from White were leaked in September 2013, during his troubled divorce from Karen Elson. In them, White urged Elson to remove their children from the same school as Auerbach's, writing: "My concern with Auerbach is because I don't want the kids involved in any of that crap. That's a possible 12 fucking years I'm going to have to be sitting in kids chairs next to that asshole with other people trying to lump us in together. He gets yet another free reign to follow me around and copy me and push himself into my world."

Now, The Black Keys Patrick Carney has discussed the incident in a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, saying he considers White an 'asshole' but that he don't not hold any grudges against the Lazaretto star.

"I actually feel embarassed for him," Carney tells the magazine, while Auerbach refused to comment on the matter. "I don't hold grudges, man. I really don't. We've all said fucked-up shit in private, and divorce is hard."

Carney continued, adding that the real problem at hand was the US gossip website who obtained the emails, TMZ, who he says should be 'fucking ashamed' for publishing White's words.

"I really think personal things are personal things," he adds. "Like, TMZ? Honestly, they should be fucking ashamed of themselves, that they make a living dragging poor souls that have nothing, that aren't famous, into this world."

"Everybody should be scrutinized? I don't believe that. I think that if you come off with a strong platform or moral agenda, then, yeah, maybe you should be scrutinized if there's a conflict there.
 Like, if you're a TV evangelist who's doing something awful.

"But you're a fucking rock musician, you're a fucking actor, you're a fucking model or whatever. It's your job, you know what I mean?" he says. "No one's doing anything illegal, it's just that people are living lives that get complicated."