Taylor Swift laughs off a wild story about her longtime friend Zoë Kravitz and a snake who got a little too comfortable in her house.
During her recent performance on Late Night with Seth Meyers On October 8, the Grammy-winning singer recalled the surprising moment she learned that Kravitz and her mother, Lisa Bonet, had accidentally left Bonet’s Burmese python, Orpheus, stuck in the wall of Taylor’s home.
The pair stayed at Swift’s Los Angeles home earlier this year amid January’s wildfires.
“I just want to preface this: We all have that one friend,” Taylor began, laughing as she remembered getting a call from her head of security.
“I just remember him trying to explain this story to me. And my first question was, ‘What snake?’ I was not aware of the snake’s presence.”
Host Seth Meyers couldn’t help but note how alarming that must have been, as he joked, “If someone said to you, ‘Oh, the snake’s loose,’ and you didn’t even know there was a snake…”
Taylor quickly agreed, emphasizing, “I didn’t know there was a snake.”
The 35-year-old pop star went on to admit that despite the chaos, she wasn’t exactly shocked by the way the whole situation unfolded. “I found myself listening to this and thinking, ‘Uh-huh, okay,’” she said with a grin.
When she later learned that Zoë and Lisa had damaged a “custom vintage cabinet” and left the bathroom floor covered in splinters while trying to save Orpheus, Taylor couldn’t help but see the humor and style in the whole ordeal.
“This is an Annie Leibovitz shoot,” she joked.
“This is the chicest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Zoë is wearing The Row from head to toe. I say, ‘This is a YSL ad, no problem.’ It sounds incredible. I’m sorry I didn’t see it.”
Still, Swift decided to have some fun with her friend.
“I know her well enough to know, ‘She’s not going to tell me about this until it’s resolved,'” she explained.
“I know her so well. I just kind of did a countdown on my phone, like I was counting the days. I think it took three weeks, just the time it took to fix the damaged closet.”
When Kravitz finally admitted what happened, Taylor couldn’t stop laughing.
“She said, ‘I told them not to tell you!’” the singer recalled. “And I told her, ‘Dude, I’ve been laughing about this for three weeks.’”
Despite the unexpected home renovation, it’s clear that nothing, not even a runaway python, can disrupt Taylor Swift and Zoë Kravitz’s friendship.
