‘We text a lot’: Katy Perry reveals she and Taylor Swift are still working on their friendship since ending their six-year feud
Katy Perry and Taylor Swift famously ended their six-year feud in Taylor’s music video for You Need to Calm Down in June 2019.
And the Bon Appétit hitmaker revealed on Sunday the pair are still working on their friendship eight months later.
Katy told Stellar Magazine that the women ‘text a lot’ despite their busy schedules.
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‘We text a lot’: Katy Perry and Taylor Swift famously ended their six-year feud in Taylor’s music video for You Need to Calm Down in June 2019. And Katy revealed on Sunday that the pair are still working on their friendship eight months later
The pop stars, who were once close friends, fell out in 2014 when Katy reportedly ‘stole’ some of Taylor’s back-up dancers from her Red world tour.
The American Idol judge, 35, spoke to Stellar about how she has stayed in contact with Taylor, 30, since putting their rivalry behind them.
‘We don’t have a very close relationship because we are very busy, but we text a lot,’ she said.
‘If you can forgive your enemy, that’s amazing’: Katy, 35, told Stellar that the driving force behind her reconciliation with Taylor, 30, was for them to be an ‘example of unity’
Katy also spoke about the significance of her cameo in the You Need to Calm Down music video.
‘It was important to make that appearance in the music video because people want people to look up to… We wanted it to be an example of unity,’ she said.
‘Forgiveness is important. It’s so powerful.’
Feud: The pop stars, who were once close friends, fell out in 2014, when Katy is claimed to have ‘stolen’ some of Taylor’s backup dancers from her Red world tour. Pictured in 2011
In June, Taylor told Heart Breakfast that it was Katy who had instigated their reunion.
The Bad Blood hit-maker revealed: ‘We reconnected a while ago. It started when she sent an olive branch to, like an actual olive branch to my tour – on the first day of my Reputation Stadium tour [May 8, 2018] and I was like, that is not only really cool and really sincere, the note but like, very clever with sending an actual olive branch.’
Taylor continued by explaining that the gesture removed any tension and bad feeling from their argument and they decided to put their feud behind them.
Keeping in touch: Despite their busy schedules, the Hot N Cold singer claimed while the women might not have a ‘close relationship’, they ‘text a lot’. Pictured in 2011
The Look What You Made Me Do singer then asked Katy to appear in her star-studded music video for You Need To Calm Down.
In the video, Katy, who was dressed in a hamburger costume, hugged Taylor, who was dressed in a french fries costume, make their reconciliation public.
‘We were just kind of reconnecting privately and just wanted to make sure that everything was really good with us and that it was like a very real thing before we let anyone know that we’re not only good but we’re friends again,’ added Taylor.
‘We’re not only good, but we’re friends again’: Taylor said the pair had been ‘reconnecting privately’ since the singer sent her an olive brand while on tour in May 2018. Pictured 2019