Taylor Swift Shares Her Version of the Zoë Kravitz "Snake-Gate" Story

Everybody your name I was brought up on the show recently Zoe Kravitz was here. She's a friend of yours She told a story really about your kindness and about how she you invited her and her mom Lisa Bonet to stay at your home after the fires in, California And and then she also said that her mom had a snake and the snake got loose in your house So we just want to give you a chance Yeah to tell Taylor's version if you will This snake in the house story, I just want to preface this with we've all got that one friend sure You know, yeah, and I just remember getting a call from My head of security and him trying to explain this story to me and my first question was what snake? Yeah, I Was unaware of the presence of the snake Premises if someone calls and says the snake is loose and you didn't even know there was a snake did not know there was a snake But I kind of found myself listening to this and I'm like, uh-huh. Okay Okay, and I hate to first and last name a friend, but it's important in this situation Okay, so Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet Are holding on to it Burmese Python It's it's halfway in the wall There's a man standing with an axe who has just chopped up a custom vintage antique Cupboard yeah, there's splinter. There's floor There's there's splinters on the floor They're looking in my mind. They're looking up over their shoulder. This is an Annie Leibovitz. Yeah. No, it's crazy This is the chicest thing I've ever heard in my life. Zoe's wearing like head-to-toe the row I'm like, this is a YSL ad not a problem. Yeah, it just sounds incredible. I'm sad. I didn't see it I know it was incredible that the story was they always had half the snake Exactly, like the only part of the snake that got lost Yeah, they really and I'm just like I I can't even be mad if you can take a good picture when you're holding on For dear life to the back half of a snake. You can take a good picture. Yeah, absolutely I'm just like I I did play the little game in my head because I know her well enough to know She's not gonna tell me about this until it's fixed. Yeah, I know her so well And I'm like, I just kept a little countdown on my phone like just counting the days. It was like three weeks Exactly the amount of time it took to fix the damaged cupboard and she's like she's like sitting at my house She's like hey, so like I I'm just gonna tell you about something that happened Now that it's fixed and I was like you had a snake in the house and it got loose and it was in the wall And they had to get an axe and they had and she's like I told them not to tell you You were like they didn't tell me you just have that vibe I've been that's the vibe you're giving off so I know people I Can read people? Yeah, it just seemed like that was what you were gonna say. No, I just um, yeah, that was Um, I was like, dude, I've been laughing about this for three weeks. So good You're a very nice friend to have house guests with snake or no snake. Thanks. Thanks. So We I've talked many times. It's one of my favorite stories about the monologue song. You wrote at SNL I just went back and rewatched we we wrote a sketch for you called firelight Which was a twilight a twilight parody where Bill Hader was a Frankenstein. Yes But what we and the rewatch we were like you're doing some of the best lip-biting acting yeah You really brought a lot So I was really trying to bring the smoldering intensity of the moment. Yes, this is back in 2009 I believe I was 19 I was hosting SNL for the first time and now that I look back I am so lucky that we got to like do anything around something as iconic and 2009 as twilight Oh my god, it's so it was so cool So our the vibe of the sketch was that actually it's not a vampire that I'm in love with. It's a Frankenstein. Yeah Yeah, and Bill Hader played Frankenstein very well, very well And this was like I look back on this week of my life this was like to me like the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me in my life at 19 and like and And definitely like hosting SNL like that was Absolutely the most amount of times I changed clothes like at that point until the heiress tour Oh, that was you knew you could do the heiress tour because I could do the heiress tour like I can I can get these Costume changes like this is this is the most fast-paced thing ever but like SNL was so much fun And that's when I got to meet you. It's fantastic. We were very lucky You love numerology well-established, yeah, you love numbers. Yeah. Yeah, so I just want to do I just want to throw out Something about tonight's show and have you tell me like if it means anything to you, okay, so this is true tonight is our 1713 show one seven one three Do they know already? So on top of the fact that you've got the 13? Yeah adds up to 12 Right. Yeah adding up to 12. Yeah, it does which is my 12th album. I'm believe All right. It's like it's like being with that beautiful mind guy. Like you just have like a chalkboard in your head behind you All right, we've talked about how you relieve stress with your bread and your bread puns Mm-hmm. I know that you literally worked on this album while you were doing the heiress tour, which is mind-boggling I think everybody hears it that you were doing this like a seminal tour and also like working on this album. Yeah, fantastic Yeah, so like when my question is, when do you sleep? And is it harder when you know, there's a snake in the house? I Actually sleep a lot and I sleep often It's just that I don't do anything other than this when I'm not sleeping, right? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that's it's not I don't have a lot of other things Yeah Does that make sense? Well, it does make sense But I'm wondering is it like out of your control like so you have this album done and I think some people when they would Finish this but like is it just gonna our new songs just gonna like find their way to you before you even know it Like I don't know. I mean I just The thing is I'm very lucky to get to do with what I love so much that it just kind of is like Like I have to like do things like bake bread To stop the songs from happening because it's just sort of like I love it so much It's like an extension of me like breathing air, right? It's just really fun and and and I just I don't know I don't do anything else though So it's like it seems like it's like oh, oh you work so much. It's like but That's all I I don't it's not work and it's all I do and I don't I'm like not good at sports or anything else Like I'm not I'm not like out here half like I'm not well-rounded This is my thing my one thing. So it's like that's the one thing I do I think all of us believe that you're very well-rounded and you're wonderful to be around as well And just thank you so much for making it back