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" Jack White has revealed that he does not have much contact with ex-wife and bandmate Meg White. The White Stripes announced their split in 2011 due to a &amp;quot;myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way&amp;quot;.  Speaking about Meg&amp;#039;s reclusiveness in recent years, Jack told Rolling Stone: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think anyone talks to Meg. She&amp;#039;s always been a hermit. &amp;quot;When we lived in Detroit, I&amp;#039;d have to drive over to her house if I wanted to talk to her, so now it&amp;#039;s almost never.&amp;quot; Meg later married Jackson Smith in 2005, but divorced in July last year. Jack added: &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s one of those people who won&amp;#039;t high-five me when I get the touchdown. She viewed me that way of &amp;#039;Oh, big deal, you did it, so what?&amp;#039; Almost every single moment of the White Stripes was like that. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d be working in the studio and something amazing would happen: I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;Damn, we just broke into a new world right there!&amp;#039; And Meg&amp;#039;s sitting in silence.&amp;quot;  However, Jack also praised his former bandmate&amp;#039;s drumming ability, saying: &amp;quot;I would often look at her on stage and say, &amp;#039;I can&amp;#039;t believe she&amp;#039;s up here.&amp;#039; I don&amp;#039;t think she understood how important she was to the band, and to me and to music. &amp;quot;She was the antithesis of a modern drummer. So childlike and incredible and inspiring. All the not-talking didn&amp;#039;t matter, because on stage? Nothing I do will top that.&amp;quot;  Jack recently revealed that he planned to work with Kanye West and Jay Z before both collaborations fell through. Listen to Jack White&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;High Ball Stepper&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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