If the song didn't come out, Taylor Swift she could have made her name in babysitting. In a recent interview with WREG News Channel 3pro wrestler Jeff Jarrett revealed that the 34-year-old pop star watched his three daughters when they were teenagers — which made a lot of sense since his wife Jill Gregory had just died.
“She's a friend of the family,” Jarrett told the organization. “Very well with my family at a very dark time in our family. “My wife got sick and passed away, but Taylor was like a big sister and she came and got the girls and baked cookies and just hung out at home.”
“I can't say enough good things about Taylor,” he continued. “Just a sweetie. I still call her 'our girl,' and now she's hanging out in NFL circles.”
Gregory died in May 2007, just months after Swift released her self-titled debut album. The WWE Hall of Famer also clarified that Swift was “never on Jeff Jarrett's payroll,” implying that the 14-time Grammy winner was looking after the girls — Jocelyn, Jaclyn and Jerlyn — out of the goodness of her heart.
The “Anti-Hero” singer has been friends with the Jarrett family since she moved to Hendersonville, Tenn., as a teenager to pursue her music career. In 2010, he had Jaclyn play a younger version of herself in the “Mine” music video, for which the wrestler and his kids all flew up to Maine to shoot along with several other young family friends that Swift cast for her future children to play.
“I know all these families personally for different weird weird reasons,” the singer said in one behind the scenes video at that time. “I'm just excited that they're going to be in the video because I just didn't want them to be outsiders, the people playing my future family.”
Nearly fifteen years later, Swift is now embarking on her Eras world tour, which recently set up shop in Zurich for two shows starting on Tuesday (July 9). Exactly one year and one day ago, the superstar released the 2011 re-recorded version Speak nowwith an updated take on the single “Mine”.
Watch Jarrett talk about Swift above.
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