Taylor Swift Says She Laughed ‘for Weeks’ About Zoe Kravitz’s Snake ‘Destroying’ Bathroom at Her $25 Million Mansion: ‘Sad I Didn’t See It’

Taylor Swift has revealed her true reaction to learning that her close friend, Zoë Kravitz, had accidentally "destroyed" the bathroom at her $25 million Beverly Hills mansion—after a pet snake got loose inside a wall of the room.
Swift, 35, opened up to late night host Seth Meyers about the moment she heard how the disaster had unfolded, having loaned her expansive property to Kravitz, 36, and her mother, Lisa Bonet, when they were evacuated from their own homes during the California wildfires.
Little did the pop star know, she was also providing temporary housing for another guest: Orpheus, a Burmese python belonging to Bonet and her family.
Kravitz first shared the story during an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" in August, admitting at the time that she and Bonet "completely destroyed Taylor's bathroom" in their attempts to retrieve Orpheus, who had slithered into a hole in the wall.
Now, Swift has revealed her side of the twisted tale during her own appearance on the late-night show, where she was promoting her new album, "The Life of a Showgirl."
When Meyers asked the songstress about how the dramatic events unfolded, Swift noted that she "can't even be mad" because of how hilarious it was.
"We've all got that one friend, I just remember getting a call from my head of security and him trying to explain this story to me," she said.



Swift revealed that her first response was "what snake?" telling the host she was completely unaware there was a reptile living in her home.
She added, “I kind of found myself listening to this, and I’m like, ‘Uh-huh, OK, OK.’ And I hate to first-and-last name a friend, but it’s important in this situation. OK, so Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet are holding on to a Burmese python. It’s halfway in the wall. There’s a man standing with an ax, who has just chopped up a custom vintage antique cupboard.
"There’s splinters on the floor. They’re looking—in my mind, this is an Annie Leibovitz shoot. … This is the chicest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. [It's] not a problem."
Luckily, Swift had a good attitude about the hilarious turn of events, noting, "It just sounds incredible. I’m sad I didn’t see it. I can't even be mad."
However, the singer did turn the tables on Kravitz, by playing "a little game" to see how long it would actually take her friend to 'fess up—particularly as the actress had admitted to begging Swift's security guard not to spill the beans.
According to Swift it took Kravitz three weeks to finally own up to the incident, noting that it was "exactly the amount of time it took to fix the damaged cupboard."
When Kravitz finally admitted the situation to Swift, she told her friend, "Dude, I’ve been laughing about this for three weeks."
Swift was no doubt just as tickled when Kravitz shared the story with the world two months ago, telling the late night audience that the saga began when she and Bonet moved into the singer's home, having been forced to leave their own properties.
At the time, Swift was not residing in the home—instead spending her time after the conclusion of the Eras Tour in New York, while also traveling to Travis Kelce's NFL games, leaving her property available for friends to use.
"She was kind enough to let me stay at her house," Kravitz explained. "My mom lives in Topanga Canyon, I said, 'It's a dangerous place to be. Come [here].'



"My mom has a pet snake. So she has her evacuation stuff, she comes over with the pet snake, and we ended up having to stay there for maybe about two weeks."
The "Blink Twice" starlet noted that Swift has "a very beautiful house" that you "want to preserve and take care of," before explaining how she and her mother ended up doing the exact opposite.
Kravitz revealed that she was preparing to leave Swift's property—which is a landmarked 1934 estate and was once owned by legendary movie producer Samuel Goldwyn—while Bonet was going to stay there for a bit longer.
"I had to leave for work, and I was kind of packing up my things, and I was saying to my mom, 'I want to be a good house guest, I like to leave places better than I found them, I don't even want her to know we were here.'"
In a bid to leave Swift's home in immaculate condition, Kravitz said she was going around the property cleaning up, when she received a phone call from her mother.
"Which was weird because we were in the same house," she admitted, before joking that Swift's house is "big, but still."
After answering the phone, Kravitz noted that Bonet's voice "was super high," indicating that something had gone amiss.
"She's like, 'Um, I'm in a little bit of a pickle. Can you come upstairs?' I'm like, 'Okay,'" the actress recalled.
When she made her way up to the second story of the home, Kravitz—whose father is famed crooner Lenny Kravitz—found her mother crouched "in this weird way" the corner of the bathroom.
It was then that Bonet explained exactly what had happened, admitting: "So I was washing my face and I had Orpheus [the snake], and I just put her down for a second. Closed the door and she found this little hole in the corner."
Kravitz immediately looked down at where her mother was crouching and saw that she was holding her pet snake by the tail in a bid to prevent it from fully slithering into the wall—but admitted that Bonet's grip on the reptile was slowly slipping.


"She's holding the snake's tail ... they're all muscle, they're very, very strong," she said. "The snake is getting further and further in."
In a bid to help her mom try and grab the snake, the on-screen star began trying to come up with another way of removing Orpheus from the hole, noting that the opening was "next to a banquette that is built into the wall."
"I'm like, 'Maybe this hole goes into the drawers [of the banquette].' So I get down on the ground, I take the drawers out. No. Start to panic," she shared.
Kravtiz was in such a state of panic that she revealed her mother joked she would have "slapped" her face had she had both hands free to do so.
"I was freaking out," the actress admitted. "But I'm like, 'Mom, I can't bring you anywhere!'"
At that point, Kravitz realized that they were going to need some additional help to try and rescue the snake, recalling that she called her assistant, Caroline, who was at a loss for what to do.
"The house manager was there, he comes up, and we're like, 'So the snake—' He's like, 'There's a snake?'" she said.
At that point, all hope Kravitz might have had of leaving Swift's home perfectly preserved went out the window, with the "Mad Max: Fury Road" star revealing that the pop star's house manager had to take a crowbar to the banquette and the tile underneath it.
"He starts having to tear apart this banquette, we're ripping up the tiles, we're scratching the walls," she said. "We completely destroyed Taylor's bathroom. And there was just this moment where I was like, 'Either we destroy her bathroom, or I have to tell her there's a snake somewhere in her house.'"
Both Meyers and Kravitz agreed that having a snake running loose in a home would be the worse of "both bad options."
"I think that's worse because then your house is ruined forever," Kravitz joked.


Eventually, after wreaking havoc in the bathroom, the actress and her mom were able to get the snake out of the hole—and Kravitz said she promised the house manager that she would get everything fixed before Swift returned, admitting that she begged him not to tell the pop star what had transpired until she could complete the repairs.
"I remember calling her and saying, 'Hey," also in a very high voice, 'I just wanted to talk to you about something,'" Kravitz revealed. "And she was like, 'Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in my house and destroyed my bathroom?'"
Luckily, Swift found the humor in the situation, with Kravitz revealing that they are in fact still friends—although she noted that she wouldn't be surprised if Orpheus becomes the target of a diss track on the singer's new album.
Swift originally purchased the sprawling seven-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom property in 2015 for $25 million—scoring quite a sizable discount on the dwelling, which had originally been listed for $32 million.
The home, which sits on two acres and offers over 10,000 square feet of living space, was described in its listing as the “epitome of cordial grace and distinguished heritage."
Highlights of the eye-catching home include seven bedrooms, a guest suite, a screening room, and a gym. The parklike grounds offer up a championship tennis court, rose garden, pool, and pool house.
The opulent estate has served as her West Coast home base for the last 10 years, although she boasts plenty of other impressive homes in her portfolio, including an enormous penthouse in Tribeca that she created by combining two adjacent units in the Manhattan building.
In 2013, Swift garnered a $17.75 million beachside estate in Rhode Island, which quickly became her go-to vacation getaway.
The residence—which is located in the exclusive enclave of Watch Hill in Westerly and is known locally as "Holiday House"—currently sprawls across 11,000 square feet and features seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
However, it was previously revealed that Swift had plans to renovate the abode to expand it with an additional bedroom, while transforming one of the existing rooms into an "enlarged bedroom suite."
In total, the project will add 400 square feet to the property.
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