Taylor Swift as soon as wrote the lyrics, “This me swallowing my pleasure, standing in entrance of you, saying I’m sorry for that evening,” allegedly about Taylor Lautner, and now, the Twilight actor is returning the favor. In a latest podcast look, Lautner opened up about regretting how he dealt with that fateful evening in September 2009 when, seconds after he offered a VMA award to the pop star, Kanye West rushed the stage and took the microphone.
The recollection comes throughout a Wednesday (Feb. 1) episode of The Squeeze, a podcast hosted by Lautner’s spouse, well being influencer Taylor Lautner (that’s not a typo, they share the identical first and final identify!). When Mrs. Lautner requested Mr. Lautner which second in his life to which he’d prefer to journey again in time and alter, he stated, “In all probability the 2009 VMAs once I offered the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye factor was not a skit.”
You may recall that this was additionally across the time Swift and the Dwelling Workforce star dated, as confirmed in the course of the podcast by Lautner’s spouse. “You and Taylor [Swift] had simply gone public,” the podcast host prompted.
“I offered the award to her,” the actor continued. “I took 5 steps again and was standing 5 toes behind her. Kanye jumps up on to the stage. I may barely hear it, I can’t see them, I’m simply assuming this entire factor was a practiced and rehearsed skit. As a result of why else would Kanye West be leaping up on the stage interrupting Taylor Swift? It simply didn’t make sense.”
The Tracers star went on to say he regrets his onstage response to the second, despite the fact that he couldn’t hear what was taking place on the time. “Should you look again at it, I’m truly caught laughing and laughing at them,” he recalled. “The second she turned again round and I noticed her face for the primary time, I used to be like, ‘Oh, that wasn’t good.’”
It was a pop-culture second that instantly went down in historical past: Swift profitable greatest video, feminine artist for “You Belong With Me,” Kanye West grabbing the microphone and shouting the now notorious line, “I’mma allow you to end, however …,” and Beyoncé’s horrified expression as he declared her the rightful winner of the award. It was the very starting of a decade-long, on-off feud between the “All Too Effectively” singer and Ye, who, 13 years later, has been out and in of the information for making infinitely extra stunning statements about antisemitism.
After that chaotic VMAs ceremony, Swift went on to launch her 2010 third studio album, Communicate Now, with songs seemingly devoted to each Ye (“Harmless”) and Lautner (“Again to December”). Within the latter monitor, she even appeared to reference the award-show incident, singing about how a love “held me in your arms that September evening/ The primary time you ever noticed me cry.”
Watch Taylor Lautner mirror on the notorious Kanye West/Taylor Swift VMAs second under:
