Taylor Swift has had some serious issues this year – literally.
The Grammy Award-winner had just finished co-writing new songs with Gracie Abrams, who admitted earlier this week that a fire broke out in the kitchen of Swift's New York City apartment during an all-night session fueled by heavy drinking, leaving the pair sleepless as they responded.
Abrams shared some rather hilarious footage of the incident on Instagram on Friday: One video shows the pair having fun working on her song “Us,” while another shows Swift warning, “I think we're gonna die,” before extinguishing the fallen candle.
“Our purses were destroyed,” Swift said after figuring out how to use the fire extinguisher, “our shoes were destroyed, and I think the whole room was destroyed.”
Abrams admitted in the caption that working on the song “from 2am to 6am” was still “one of the most fun I've ever had.” The singer, whose father is director J.J. Abrams, who created the “Lost” TV series and helmed the latest “Star Wars” film trilogy, still remembers that night vividly.
“She was a legend. I don't know how she knew what to do, at this time, in this state,” Abrams said in an interview with Billboard magazine on Tuesday, which reported that the incident happened six months ago. “We both had really bad coughs for weeks from the fire extinguisher fumes.”
The song itself appears on Abrams' sophomore album, “The Secret of Us,” which hit streaming services on Friday, and has become a much-needed personal track.
The 24-year-old California native says she still can't believe her childhood heroes have become Gen Z allies.
“I got a text from her out of the blue about two years ago at Christmas,” Abrams told Rolling Stone in February, referring to Swift's 32nd birthday in December 2022. “I was like, 'Hey, it's my birthday,' and I was like, 'I know.' She's one of the most brilliant people of all time, a lyricist genius, an artistic genius, an angel from heaven.”
The rising star also addressed the so-called “Nepo Baby” controversy at the time, acknowledging her “myriad tangible strengths,” and has since opened for Swift at several shows on her record-breaking Erasu Tour, even singing onstage with her hero.
“I was unconscious the whole time,” Abrams joked on “The Tonight Show” in May.
