Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Taylor Lautner, the rumored topic of “Again to December,” opened up about one large remorse he has from his time relationship her. The feedback, which he shared on his and his spouse Taylor Dome’s podcast The Squeeze this week, mark one of many first occasions Lautner has publicly spoken about Swift and their transient romance in 2009.
Dome requested Lautner if he might return to at least one second in his life, which might he select. He picked probably the most notorious moments of Swift’s profession. “In all probability the 2009 VMAs [in August 2009]after I offered the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye [West] factor was not a skit,” he stated, referring to when West interrupted Swift on stage throughout her acceptance speech for Greatest Feminine Video.
Taylor Lautner hugging Taylor Swift on stage after giving her her award on the 2009 VMAs
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“I am deceased,” his spouse stated. “You and Taylor had simply gone public or no matter.”
“And I current the award to her, so I gave her the award,” Lautner recalled. “I took 5 steps again and was standing 5 toes behind her. And yeah, in the midst of her giving her thanks speech, Kanye jumps up onto the stage.”
“I can barely hear it,” Lautner continued. “I am unable to see them. I am simply assuming that 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 did not make sense. And in the event you look again at it, I am really caught like, laughing like laughing at them. I am like, ‘I am unable to hear them, however that is most likely actually humorous proper now.’ He jumped off, she completed. The second she turned again round and I noticed her face for the primary time, I used to be like, ‘Oh. [That wasn’t a skit.] No, that wasn’t good.’”
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In August 2019, Swift herself shared her diary entry concerning the night time of the VMAs. “Ahh… the issues that may change in every week…Let’s simply say, in the event you had informed me Kanye West would have been the primary focus of my week, the media, and my half within the VMAs I’d’ve checked out you crossed eyed,” she wrote. “And in the event you had informed me that one of many largest stars in music was going to leap up onstage and announce that he thought I should not have received on reside tv, I’d’ve stated ‘That stuff does not actually occur in actual life.’ Nicely… apparently…. It does.”
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