Fourteen years after he made headlines by calling the singer Madonna a “whiny old barmaid,” the actor Rupert Everett is changing his tune.

While appearing on the “Lorraine” show on Friday, Everett was asked about the comments about Madonna that he made in his 2006 autobiography, “Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins.”

“I don’t think though that you ever made up with Madonna,” said host Lorraine Kelly. “Because I remember in your book you called her a whiny old barmaid, which I thought was quite an interesting description.”

“That was an experience working with her, wasn’t it?” she added. “You get taken into the bubble of Madonna, but then when you’re out, you’re out.”

Everett disagreed with this, however, saying that he and Madonna are now friends.

Well, no, we are friends,” he explained. “I’m a great admirer of her as a person. I think she as well is an amazing woman. And where tenacity has taken her is unbelievable. And so I have great respect for her.”

Everett and Madonna were best friends until they starred together in the 2000 box office bomb “The Next Best Thing,” in which they played friends who decide to have a child together and then have a bitter custody battle. Back in October, Everett explained that the movie flopping and the comments he made in his autobiography led to their friendship going south.

“We don’t see each other anymore. I do miss it,” he told Daily Mail. “She’s an amazing person and that part of my life was incredibly exciting. To be doing a film with her and to be a friend of hers and to have been such a fan of hers. But the fallout from the movie’s failure was gigantic for me, like an outer-space explosion.”

Everett went on to say that Madonna never forgave him for what he wrote about her in his book.

“She really didn’t like it (the book). I think it is very affectionate, and certainly with her I was very careful to only write things that were. But she felt it was an infringement of privacy,” he said. “Goddesses like that are obsessed with their public image and want to control everything about it, so if anyone is to tell anyone anything about her it’s got to be her. Elephants don’t forget… She doesn’t trust me any more.”