Taylor Swift might go “Back to December,” but Taylor Lautner wants to return to the 2009 VMAs.
On an episode of his latest podcast “The Squeeze” that he hosts together with his wife, Taylor Dome Lautner, she asked him, “When you could return to 1 moment in your life, what moment would that be and what would you say to yourself?”
“Probably the 2009 VMAs, after I presented the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye [West] thing was not a skit,” said Lautner, 30, to which his wife, 25, quipped in response, “I’m deceased.”
Lautner — who was dating Swift, 33, on the time — was referencing the now-infamous moment when Ye, 45, interrupted Swift while she was in the midst of accepting her award for Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me.”
“Yo, Taylor,” Ye said through the interruption. “I’m really completely happy for you. I’ma allow you to finish, but Beyoncé has probably the greatest videos of all time. Probably the greatest videos of all time!”
Lautner had originally thought the entire thing was a comedic bit.
“I presented the award to her,” he recalled on the podcast. “I took five steps back and was standing five feet behind her. And, yeah, in the midst of her giving her ‘thanks’ speech, Kanye jumps on 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?” Lautner continued.
He admitted he laughed about it at first, but when Swift turned around and he saw her face, he knew it “wasn’t good.”
Swift and Lautner briefly dated in 2009, and Dome identified that the 2 had just gone public with their relationship on the time of the incident.
Lautner and Dome married in November 2022 in California after a yearlong engagement.
