Howard Stern and Adam Sandler weren’t on speaking terms for years after the radio host would criticize the actor’s movies.

But the Blended star and shock jock buried the hatchet this week when the actor visited Stern’s SiriusXM show in New York.

On Tuesday Sandler told the host that his constant criticism had hurt his feelings, to which the 61-year-old replied: ‘I was a total f**king a**hole.’

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Friends again: Howard Stern has admitted to being an ‘a**hole’ to Adam Sandler (right) after years of slamming his movies

‘I always felt bad about all the years we didn’t speak,’ Stern admitted.

The Pixels star revealed just how sensitive he was about the whole thing as he told the former America’s Got Talent judge that he had always been a big fan.

The 49-year-old said: ‘When I was at NYU freshman year, I loved you. That’s why it was weird when you used to slam me. It would break my heart because I loved you growing up. 

Stern recalled the time the duo were on a plane together and he had wanted to reach out to the actor but knew the film producer was avoiding him. 

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Actor and producer: Sandler, 49, visited the 61-year-old host at his SiriusXM studios on Tuesday and told him that his constant bashing had hurt his feelings because he had been a big fan since his college days

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Outspoken: Stern had said in 2012 that he knew why Sandler wouldn’t come on his show saying ‘am I the only one criticizing the content in his movies?’

Adam Sandler cuddles up to wife Jackie at Ridiciulous 6 premiere

Sandler explained: ‘That was after you were nasty to me, and I remember the next day you talked about me being an a**hole again,

‘The reason I didn’t say hello was you were saying s**t to me.’

In 2012, Stern said: ‘I know Adam Sandler won’t come on the show because I’ve, in the past, criticized his movies,

In his chat with Stern, Sandler revealed that he doesn’t care too much about negative reviews but it does bother him when he casts his friends in the movies and wants them to be successful.  

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Sensitive soul: Sandler said that bad reviews don’t bother him but he gets upset when he asks his friends to be in his movies and they get ‘destroyed’ by critics

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Tough crowd: Many of the actor’s movies have been panned by critics, including 2014’s Blended (pictured), Jack And Jill in 2011, That’s My Boy (2012) and most recently The Cobbler, among countless others

‘The bad reviews that I get on everything I do, that part pisses me off because I ask my f**kin friends to be in it,

‘I’m promising them, “I think it’s good.” And then I do screenings for an audience and it all works, and I’ll call them up after and say, “Hey, that one thing you said really did great,” and then that Friday, every Friday, literally every one of my movies is destroyed,’ 

Meanwhile Stern has signed a five-year contract with SiriusXM to continue hosting and producing The Howard Stern Show.

He will also help develop SiriusXM’s foray into video streaming. 

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to The Hollywood Reporter for the past five years the company has paid $80 million per year for Stern’s show, which is live three days a week.

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Longtime host: Stern – pictured with wife Beth at a gala in New York last month – has just signed a five-year deal with SirusXM to continue to host produce The Howard Stern Show