Actor Taylor Lautner can not seem to let go of Kanye West’s notorious interplay with singer Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, greater than a decade after the fiasco shocked viewers.
Lautner sat down along with his spouse, Taylor Dome – so many Taylors! – throughout an episode of The Squeeze podcast to mirror on his time in Hollywood, his physique picture and what he would change about his previous.
“If you would return to at least one second in your life, what would that second be and what would you say to your self?” Dome requested her husband.
The reply? The 2009 VMAs.
On Sept 13, 2009, Lautner offered then-girlfriend Swift with the award for greatest feminine video. All was effectively till the rapper interrupted her speech.
“I’mma allow you to end, however Beyonce had one in all the greatest movies of all time,” mentioned West, who now goes by Ye, whereas then-newcomer Swift withered onstage behind him.
As the interplay unfolded, Lautner stood behind the musicians considering it was all only a “practiced and rehearsed skit,” he mentioned on the podcast.
“Why else would Kanye West be leaping up on the stage interrupting Taylor Swift?,” he requested. “It simply did not make sense.”
It was solely after Swift rotated and he noticed her face that he realised what had occurred.
“I in all probability ought to’ve mentioned one thing,” he mentioned on the podcast. Lautner’s spouse assured him that he made up for it throughout his Saturday Night Live opening monologue in December 2009.
The actor opened his SNL internet hosting debut addressing rumors about his relationship with Swift and displayed how he would have dealt with the VMAs debacle if given one other probability. Showing off his flashy fight expertise, he beheaded a model with West’s face and rescued one other dummy bearing Swift’s mug.
“I’m sorry, Kanye, I did not imply to knock your head off there,” he instructed the first model.
Lautner and Swift ended their temporary romance that very same yr.
West, who has been embroiled in a number of controversies over his anti-semitic remarks in latest months, apologized to Swift days after the VMAs incident.
“It was impolite, interval,” West mentioned on the premiere episode of NBC’s The Jay Leno Show. “I do not attempt to justify it ‘trigger I used to be in the unsuitable.”
Then he apologised once more a yr later, blaming the media for demonising him, likening himself to the character Ron Burgundy and calling Swift “only a li’l lady with goals like the remainder of us”.
The incident at the 2009 VMAs marked the starting of a tense relationship between the two artists. Since then, West and Swift have engaged in a number of public feuds, together with the drama round the rapper’s 2016 tune Famous and its controversial music video.
“Being falsely painted as a liar when I used to be by no means given the full story or performed any a part of the tune is character assassination,” Swift mentioned in a press release about Famous.
“I might very very like to be excluded from this narrative, one which I’ve by no means requested to be part of, since 2009.” – Los Angeles Times
The star of the ‘Twilight’ collection mirrored on his time in Hollywood, his physique picture and what he would change about his previous in a podcast. Photo: Filepic
