Singer Taylor Swift is always in the news, one way or another. And most the time, the young starlet is being dragged through some controversy or another or people are bashing her for something she might have said.
Given this all, we expect that Swift would be immune to all the negativity that comes her way, but, according to one of her closest friends Todrick Hall, who is probably the best source for inside information during Taylor’s no-interview era, she’s actually “very sensitive” to criticism.
During an interview on The Kid Kraddick Morning Show, Hall said, “We were talking about this the other day and I said, ‘It blows my mind that you’re so humble and so sensitive.’ We were hanging out at her house and Tiffany Haddish was there and she was saying something about some comment a kid said, and you could tell that it made Taylor’s entire energy shift because she just loves people so much and she wants everybody to understand where she’s coming from.”
“I think it’s that passion and that humble quality about her that makes her so great at writing songs that people identify with because she wears her heart on her sleeve,” Hall added. “And when things happen, it really, really gets to her.”
Hall says that now she’s the “happiest I’ve ever seen her” with new boyfriend Joe Alwyn, but the sailing hasn’t always been so smooth. Although he doesn’t name any names, the singer mentions that he didn’t exactly approve of one of Swift’s former flames.
“There was a time last year — I don’t know if I’m supposed to say anything — she was dating someone,” Hall said. “I’d actually never met this person, but I could just tell every time I would talk to her, she would hunch over.”
“I sent her this picture of her as Quasimodo that I edited,” he recalled. “Because I was like, ‘You cannot turn into Quasimodo for this guy. Every time you say his name, you hunch over.’”
Given the timeline, he could be talking about actor Tom Hiddleston, whom Swift dated for a couple months in 2016.
“She’s so happy. Standing up completely straight and so tall and so confident. I just love it,” Hall concluded, “I’m so, so happy for her and I cannot wait to see this tour.”
