Taylor Swift’s Rep Blasts Gossip Site for ‘Insane’ Post Suggesting Star Secretly Married Joe Alwyn

In a rare public rebuke aimed at what she deemed an “insane” rumor, Taylor Swift‘s longtime publicist Tree Paine slammed the anonymous gossip account DeuxMoi on Thursday night (Nov. 30) for what she said was a hurtful, false allegation about the singer.

“Enough is enough with these fabricated lies about Taylor from DeuxMoi,” Paine posted on X in response an Instagram Story shared Thursday from the blind account claiming that Swift had a non-legal ceremony described as a marriage to then-romantic partner actor Joe Alwyn “in either 2020 or 2021 in the UK” that the anonymous writer swore was a fact. “I will die on this hill!” the writer added. “Put it on my tombstone!”

“There was NEVER a marriage or ceremony of ANY kind,” Paine responded in a tweet verified by Billboard as coming from the publicist. “This is an insane thing to post. It’s time for you to be held accountable for the pain and trauma you cause with posts like these.”

Billboard reached out to DeuxMoi for a response, but had not received one at press time.

The post about the alleged wedding was accompanied by a since-deleted message from DeuxMoi seemingly hitting back at Paine, writing, “Well I make zero dollars from lying… can publicists say the same.” The unidentified person behind DeuxMoi released a novel, Anon Pls., last year — which is slated to become a TV series on Max — and hosts the Deux U podcast. “Also, to relate something that is in reference to something that happened years ago to ‘pain & trauma’ after what just happened seems like a poor choice of words,” the gossip blogger added.

“Either way, I apologize to Taylor,” DeuxMoi wrote in the response to Paine in the since-deleted post confirmed by Billboard.

The anonymous Instagram account posts unverified celebrity gossip it says are sourced from users. “This account does not claim information published is based in fact,” reads a disclaimer on the DeuxMoi feed.

Swift and Alwyn’s breakup made headlines in April; they were together for six years, during which they were frequently the subject of what the singer referred to as “weird rumors.” The singer-songwriter appeared to take on those whispers on “Lavender Haze,” the opening track of her Midnights album, singing, “I’m d–ned if I do give a d–n what people say/ the 1950s s— they want from me/ I just wanna stay in that lavender haze.”

“All they keep asking me is if I’m gonna be your bride/ the only kinda girl they see is a one night or a wife,” she continues on the track. Swift — who is currently dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — also dove into the whispers in an Instagram post before the album’s release, writing that “Haze” was inspired by her relationship with Alwyn, saying, “We’ve had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it. And so this song is sort of about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.” She later deleted the video following the couple’s split.