Taylor Lautner regrets not defending Taylor Swift from Kanye at the 09 VMAs

Taylor Lautner and his wife, Taylor Lautner, have a podcast called The Squeeze with Taylor Lautner & Taylor Lautner. That feels like a missed opportunity on the title, they really should have workshopped that more. Anyway, Taylor the wife asked Taylor the husband if there was a point in his life hed like to redo.

Taylor Lautner and his wife, Taylor Lautner, have a podcast called The Squeeze with Taylor Lautner & Taylor Lautner. That feels like a missed opportunity on the title, they really should have workshopped that more. Anyway, Taylor the wife asked Taylor the husband if there was a point in his life he’d like to redo. T1 (only because I knew of him first) said that if he could go back, it would be to the 2009 VMAs, when Kayne West stole Taylor Swift’s moment at the microphone while accepting her award. For anyone who possibly doesn’t know, Tay-Tay (just to keep them straight) won the VMA for Best Female Video. She and T1 were dating at the time and he, coincidentally (?) presented the award to her on stage. Kayne came on stage, grabbed the mic, and told the world Beyoncé should have won instead. Although he was right, he was also an @ss and this was a terrible thing to do. T1 told T2 he didn’t realize until it was too late this wasn’t a bit between Tay-Tay and Kanye.

Taylor Lautner reflected on his failure to defend ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift, as Kanye West infamously stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAs. When asked by his wife Taylor Dome during a recent podcast episode of The Squeeze With Taylor Lautner & Taylor Lautner what moment in life he would go back to if he could, the Twilight icon got straight to the point. “Probably the 2009 VMAs, when I presented the award to Taylor,” he said thoughtfully. “And was unaware that the Kanye thing was not a skit.”

“So I gave her the award, I took five steps back, and was standing five feet behind her,” he explained. And in the middle of her 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 and interrupting Taylor Swift? It just didn’t make sense.

Lautner even admitted that at one point, he laughed at the spectacle, thinking it was all a joke. “If you look back at it, I’m actually caught like laughing, giggling at him. ‘I can’t hear them, but this is probably really funny right now,’” he quipped. The moment of recognition came quickly, however. “The second she turned back around and I saw her face for the first time, I was like, ‘oh…that wasn’t good.’”

[From Hollywood Life]

First of all, credit to T1 for bringing up his inertia in the moment. I remember those shots of him laughing now that he mentions it. I think T1 is a pretty decent guy, so I believe he was just clueless and not playing into Kayne’s bs. I’m surprised he would think his *girlfriend* would plan such an elaborate bit without cluing him into the joke ahead of time, but maybe he thought the VMAs made her swear silence on the matter. I also believe that nobody really knew what to do in that moment. Even if he had figured it out, what was T1 going to do, wrestle the mic away from Kanye? The man had just taken the stage away from America’s Sweetheart, he wasn’t giving that moment up. And T1 was 17 years old at the time. I wouldn’t have had the wherewithal at 17 to know what to do.

Could you imagine the moment when T1 saw Tay-Tay’s face on stage and realized what is actually happening? Again, between the shock of what was going on and the emotional response of someone you love having their moment stolen, T1 was likely paralyzed. Don’t get me wrong, I know that moment was about Tay-Tay. I can imagine it was also difficult for T1 to try to figure out how to come to Tay-Tay’s aid in front of the cameras like that. But that’s why I defend T1’s answer about wishing he’d done something. I don’t think it’s a white knight response or a man needing to help a defenseless female issue. I think he saw her in pain and wishes, as someone who cared about her, that he could have done something to support her better. I get it.

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