Taylor Lautner’s rare comments about ex Taylor Swift

Taylor Lautner has revealed details about the infamous moment Kanye West stormed onstage as Taylor Swift accepted her 2009 VMA.

Taylor Lautner wishes he could go “Back To December” – or at least to September 2009.

When asked by his wife, Tay Dome, about which moment in his life he would return to if he could, the Twilight actor recalled an iconic moment in pop culture history, Page Six reports.

“Probably the 2009 VMAs,” Lautner, 30, said on their podcast, The Squeeze, which was re-shared to TikTok on Wednesday.

“When I presented the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye [West] thing was not a skit,” he continued, referencing the time West, 45, interrupted Swift, 33, as she was accepting her MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video for You Belong with Me.

“I presented the award to her, so I have the award. I took five steps back and was standing five feet behind her,” Lautner recalled. “And in the middle of her giving her ‘thank you’ speech, Kanye jumps up onto the stage.”

Kanye West jumps onstage after Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video award the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Christopher Polk/Getty Images

At the time, West took the microphone right out of Swift’s hand and told the crowd that Beyoncé “had one of the best videos of all time” – for Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) – and should have won over the country star.

Although Lautner, who was dating Swift at the time, was standing on stage, he claimed he wasn’t able to hear much of the now-infamous interaction.

“I can barely hear it. I can’t see them,” he recalled during the podcast. “I’m just assuming this whole thing was a practised and rehearsed skit, because why else would Kanye West be jumping on the stage interrupting Taylor Swift? It just didn’t make sense.”

Taylor Swift referenced the night on her 2010 track Back to December. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Taylor Lautner spoke about the moment on his new podcast with his wife Taylor Dome. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images

The actor even pretended to go along with what he thought was a “skit” by giggling on stage as West’s rant continued on.

“He jumped off. She finished [talking],” Lautner remembered.

“The second she turned back around and I saw her face for the first time, I was like, ‘Oh. No. That wasn’t good.’”

Swift recalled the aftermath of the events of that night – September 13, 2009 – in her song Back to December, which the former couple confirmed was about their brief romance.

“I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile/So good to me, so right/And how you held me in your arms that September night/The first time you ever saw me cry,” the Grammy winner crooned on the 2010 track.

Swift has won 14 MTV Video Music Awards, including three Video of the Year. Last year, she accepted her third for ‘All Too Well: The Short Film’. Picture: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global

More than a decade later, the pair have moved on with other partners.

Lautner said “I do” to Dome at Epoch Estate Wines in Templeton, California, in November 2022.

Pictures and video footage from their big day showed the pair holding hands and exchanging kisses while posing for photos with their bridal party.

The newlyweds first went public with their romance in 2018 and have been gushing over each other ever since.

“My sister Makena actually introduced us. She called me and said, ‘Dude, I found your future wife. You need to meet this girl.’ And the rest is history,” Lautner previously told People.

Meanwhile, the Anti-Hero singer has been dating actor Joe Alwyn since 2016.

The Conversations with Friends star has become a pro at dodging questions surrounding the couple’s rumoured engagement.

“If I had a pound for every time I think I’ve been told I’ve been engaged, then I’d have a lot of pound coins,” he told WSJ Magazine last year.

“I mean, the truth is, if the answer was yes, I wouldn’t say, and if the answer was no, I wouldn’t say.”

This article originally appeared on Page Six and was reproduced with permission