When Taylor Swift appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2012, she was forced to “ring a bell” every time a celeb man she dated flashed up on screen.
In what was supposed to be a fun segment, the chat began increasingly awkward, with the Anti-Hero singer repeatedly asking host Ellen DeGeneres to “stop”.
Now, a decade later, the interview — which has gone viral again thanks to TikTok — has received huge backlash, including from Emily who called it “F*cked up”.
“This is so f*cked up,” the supermodel wrote under a post on social media. “She’s literally begging her to stop.”
During the segment, Taylor Lautner, Justin Bieber, Joe Jonas and Justin Timberlake were featured, with Taylor begging to keep “the one shred of dignity that I have.”
“I don’t want to [do it]. They’ll send me angry emails, and I don’t want to get them,” she added.
“Stop it, stop it, stop! This makes me feel so bad about myself. Every time I come up here, you put a different dude up there on the screen, and it just makes me really question what I stand for as a human being.”
Taylor Swift indirectly spoke out about the incident during a 2019 interview
During an interview with Zane Lowe on the Apple Beats podcast in 2019, Taylor seemingly spoke out about the incident without naming names.
“When I was like 23, people were just kind of reducing me to — kind of making slide shows of my dating life and putting people in there that I’d sat next to at a party once and deciding that my songwriting was like a trick rather than a skill and a craft,” she told the host.
“It’s a way to take a woman who is doing her job and succeeding at doing her job and making things, and it’s, in a way, it’s figuring out how to completely minimise that skill.”
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