They now have poor blood.
Emily Ratajkowski criticizes Ellen DeGeneres for a recently viral TikTok interview with Taylor Swift that has reappeared.
The 31-year-old supermodel responded to a 2012 film of Swift performing on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” with, “This is so messed up.”
She is literally pleading with her to stop.
Swift, now 33 years old, sat on a chair across from DeGeneres as photographs of prominent men, including Taylor Lautner, Justin Bieber, Joe Jonas, and Justin Timberlake, flashed on the screen behind them.
Emily Ratajkowski criticizes Ellen DeGeneres for resurfacing a viral TikTok interview with Taylor Swift.
DeGeneres, who is now 64 years old, requested that Swift “ring a bell” if she came across a photo of one of the men she dated.
Swift pleaded with DeGeneres to stop, telling the now-embarrassed talk show host that she wished to preserve “what little dignity I have left.”
“I’d rather not [do it]. They will send me angry emails, which I do not like to receive, the “Midnights” singer explained.
“Stop, stop, and stop!” “I feel so terrible about myself,” she continued. “Every time I come up here, you put a different dude on the screen, and it really makes me question who I am as a person.”
Swift later told Apple Beats’ Zane Lowe that early in her career, interviewers compared her to the men she had dated.
Fans argued that, despite not mentioning DeGeneres by name, she was definitely referring to the awkward 2012 interview.
“When I was about 23 years old, people were making slideshows of my dating life, including people I’d sat next to at a party, and deciding that my songwriting was more of a trick than a skill and an art,” she told Lowe.
“In a way, it’s figuring out how to completely minimize a woman’s skill at doing her job and making things.”
Ratajkowski was not the only person to call out DeGeneres in the video’s comments section, which also included a clip from Swift’s discussion with Lowe.
The musician appeared noticeably uneasy in the interview from a decade ago.
“Unbelievable,” influencer Tinx said, while another user chimed in, “You can literally hear in her voice how upset she is.”
A third observer noted, “She’s visibly upset, but she has to ‘perform’ that she’s laughing because the audience is laughing at her.”
DeGeneres, who apologized in 2020 for fostering a “toxic” environment, stopped her long-running program in May 2022, 19 seasons after its debut.
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