Taylor Lautner is getting candid about that very infamous moment his ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift had on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards.
In a recent episode of his podcast The Squeeze with wife Tay Dome, the 30-year-old Twilight star looked back on the 2009 VMAs when Swift was interrupted by Kanye West as she was giving her acceptance speech.
During the awards show back in September 2009, Lautner presented the Best Female Video award to Swift for the music video for “You belong To Me.” Lautner and Swift had just started dating at the time.
As Swift began her acceptance speech, Kanye suddenly rushed on stage, taking the mic from Swift and declaring that Beyonce was the one who should have won.
The topic came up on Lautner’s podcast when his new wife asked him which career moment he wanted to relive. Lautner stated:
“Probably the 2009 VMAs when I presented the award to Taylor. I was unaware that the Kanye thing was not a skit.”
He went on, recalling:
“Yeah [we had just gone public with our relationship] and I presented the award to her, so I gave her the award [and] I took five steps back and was standing five feet behind her. In the middle of giving her thank-you speech, Kanye jumps up onto the stage.
I can barely hear it. I can’t see them. I’m just assuming that this whole thing was a practiced and rehearsed skit because why else would Kanye West be jumping up on the stage, interrupting Taylor Swift? It just didn’t make sense.”
Lautner shared that after Kanye gave the mic back to Swift, it dawned on Lautner that the whole thing was not a pre-rehearsed bit:
“He jumped off, she finished [and] the second she turned back around and I saw her face for the first time, I was like, ‘Oh. No, that wasn’t good.’”
