Prince William reveals celebrity moment that left him ‘cringing’

He’s one of the most famous people on the planet, but Prince William has admitted he was “like a puppy” when confronted with this female megastar.

Prince William says he felt like he was “in a trance” back in November 2013, when Taylor Swift asked him to join her and Jon Bon Jovi onstage for a performance of Livin’ On a Prayer during a fundraiser at Kensington Palace.

“I’m sat next to Taylor Swift. She’s on my left,” the Duke of Cambridge, 39, recalls in an upcoming Apple Fitness+ Time to Walk audio series set to premiere on December 6, reports the NY Post.

“And after Jon [Bon Jovi] does his first song, there’s a pause, and she turns to me,” he continues. “She puts her hand on my arm, looks me in the eye, and says, ‘Come on, William. Let’s go and sing.’”

William admits that to this day, he still doesn’t know “what came over me,” and cringes at “what happened next.”

“Frankly, if Taylor Swift looks you in the eye, touches your arm, and says, ‘Come with me’ … I got up like a puppy and went, ‘Yeah, OK, that seems like a great idea. I’ll follow you,’” he jokes.

The Duke of Cambridge says this iconic moment left him “cringing”. Picture: AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski, Pool

The prince says he would compare himself in the once in a lifetime moment to a swan: “Trying to keep myself composed on the outside, but inside, the little legs are paddling fast.”

He adds, “At times, when you’re taken out of your comfort zone, you’ve got to roll with it.”

Video from the performance also reveals that Bon Jovi, 59, asked Prince William to come on stage while referring to him as “the karaoke kid.” Moments later, Swift, 31, and a nervous-looking William appear on stage just in time for the chorus.

His Royal Highness and Swift high-fived after their first round of singing together, then continued to stay on the stage and sing the chorus until the song ended.

It comes after the Duke of Cambridge opened up about his mother, Princess Diana, and her love of Tina Turner, revealing they would often sing her greatest hits during car rides to school together when he and Harry were children.

Diana with her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, on Harry's first day at Wetherby School in London, September 1989. Picture: Terry Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images

“One of the songs I massively remember and has stuck with me all this time, and I to this day still quite enjoy secretly, is Tina Turner’s The Best,” the Duke of Cambridge shared through tears while walking on the grounds of Sandringham, the Queen’s Norfolk estate, for an article by The Times.

Because sitting in the back seat, singing away, it felt like a real family moment.”

William, 39, who was 15 when the Princess of Wales died in 1997, continued, “My mother, she’d be driving along singing at the top of her voice. We’d even get the policeman [security] in the car: he’d occasionally be singing along as well. We’d be singing and listening to the music right the way up to the gates at school where they dropped you off.”

This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was reproduced with permission.