Zoë Kravitz “destroyed” Taylor Swift’s bathroom searching for lost pet snake
Zoë Kravitz has talked about the time she “destroyed” Taylor Swift’s bathroom after her mother’s snake got into a hole in the wall.
Appearing on Late Night With Seth Meyers, The Batman star talked about the period were she lived at the music star’s house during the Los Angeles wildfires, along with her mother, actor Lisa Bonet.
“She was kind enough to let me stay at her house,” Kravitz said. “My mom lives in Topanga Canyon, so I said, ‘No, that’s a dangerous place to be. Come (here).’ And my mom has a pet snake, and so she has her evacuation stuff; she came over with the snake. We ended up having to stay there for maybe about two weeks, and Taylor has this very beautiful house. I think it’s from the ’30s, like it’s a beautiful house, something you want to preserve and take care of”.
She said the problem arose toward the end of their stay. “I was gonna leave. My mom was actually gonna stay longer. I had to leave for work,” she said. “I was kind of packing up my things, and I was saying to my mom, ‘I really wanna be a good house guest. I like to leave places better than I found them. I don’t want (Swift) to even know we were here.’
“So I was kind of going around and cleaning up, and I’m downstairs and she’s upstairs and my phone rings and it’s my mom”.
“I answered the phone and she goes, ‘Hi!’ And I’m like, ‘Your voice is super high.’ And she’s like, ‘I’m in a little bit of a pickle. Can you come upstairs?’” Kravitz said, explaining the reptile had “found this little hole in the corner” of the room.
“So the hole is next to a banquette that is built into the wall that has two drawers at the bottom. My mom, by the way, she’s holding the snake’s tail. … They’re all muscle, they’re very, very strong, so she’s holding the snake’s tail. We don’t know what to do.”
The situation began to get more desperate. “I was panicking so much that my mom likes to say, ‘If I had both hands, I would have slapped you’” she joked, before saying Swift’s house manager eventually used a crowbar to “tear apart this banquette” and free the snake.
“We’re ripping up the tile, we’re scratching the walls,” she recalled. “We completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom, and there was just this moment where I was like, either we destroy her bathroom or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house”.
She concluded: “And I remember calling her [Swift] and saying, ‘Hey — also very high voice — I wanted to talk to you about something,’ and she was like, ‘Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in our house and destroyed my bathroom?’”
Taylor Swift recently announced her new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast. Her partner also praised the singer for her “football field-sized” show, insisting: “She may not think of herself as an athlete – but I’ve seen what she goes through”.
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