Jake Gyllenhaal reacts to Taylor Swift's All Too Well and cyberbullying Swifties

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Jake Gyllenhaal is finally breaking his silence on Taylor Swift’sAll Too Well track, which has long been rumoured to be about their relationship.

Last year, the Grammy winner recorded a 10-minute version of the song for a re-release of her 2012 album, Red. The revamped track ignited discussion on song’s lyrics, and the singer-songwriter’s relationship with Gyllenhaal and their breakup in 2011.

Swift, 32, has never said if the song was about any one person specifically, but in a new Esquire interview Gyllenhaal, 41, spoke about rumours that All Too Well is about him.

“It has nothing to do with me,” the Oscar nominee said. “It’s about her relationship with her fans. It is her expression. Artists tap into personal experiences for inspiration, and I don’t begrudge anyone that.”

But after he was ridiculed online, Gyllenhaal, who is currently dating model Jeanne Cadieu, did say that artists need to take “responsibility” when their fans engage in “cyberbullying.”

“At some point, I think it’s important when supporters get unruly that we feel a responsibility to have them be civil and not allow for cyberbullying in one’s name,” the Ambulance star told Esquire.

Gyllenhaal didn’t specifically call out Swift, but did add that artists should “take responsibility for what we put into the world.”

“We see that in politics. There’s anger and divisiveness, and it’s literally life-threatening in the extreme,” Gyllenhaal said.

In All Too Well, Swift took several perceived swipes at Gyllenhaal with one of the lines highlighting their age difference: “I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age,” she sings.

Gyllenhaal’s current girlfriend, Cadieu, is 25.

During a Tonight Show appearance last fall, Swift said the song was written when she was “going through a bit of a sad time.”

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“I started ad-libbing what I was going through and what I was feeling,” she said.

In a 2013 interview, Swift spoke to New York magazine and confirmed the subject of All Too Well had listened to the song. “I heard from the guy that most of Red is about,” Swift told the outlet then, via Elle. “He was like, ‘I just listened to the album, and that was a really bittersweet experience for me. It was like going through a photo album.’

“That was nice. Nicer than, like, the ranting, crazy e-mails I got from this one dude. It’s a lot more mature way of looking at a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it — but one of those people happened to be a songwriter.”

When asked directly if he ever listened to the entirety of Red (Taylor’s Version), Gyllenhaal, who dated Swift for three months in 2010, responded, “No.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com