An eyewitness claimed Taylor Swift’s bodyguard asked a woman to leave the premises before an alleged confrontation with the Grammy winner at the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday.
During the game, Swift was seen gesturing — from her VIP suite — to a fan directly below her to stop recording her and watch the action on the field, as her husband Travis Kelce and his team took on the Los Angeles Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
A member of her security team then appeared to ask the fan to put her phone away.
Podcast host Ashlie Molstad claimed to the Daily Mail on Tuesday that she and a friend saw the whole thing happen – and offered her perspective, saying she “assumed” the woman involved was “in a nearby section” before “all of a sudden she was right in our space.”
“We were in the fifth seat, so she had passed four people,” Molstad said. “The next thing I knew, she was right next to me screaming Taylor’s name.”
Molstad admitted she couldn’t see Swift from where she was positioned, but saw her security “immediately” intervene to tell the woman, “These are not your seats. You need to leave.”
According to Molstad, the woman responded that she was from Germany “from a long way away” and that she was dressed in Oktoberfest costume, after which the security guard “repeatedly said that those were not her seats and that she had to go,” Molstad claimed.
The woman then “raised her phone to take a quick photo, and he raised his hand to block the camera,” Molstad continued, noting that she “didn’t hear Taylor say anything” but that in footage of the incident, “you can see her say something like, ‘I’m watching the game.’
Molstad said, “What was frustrating was that she assumed she had the right to run into our row and get in Taylor’s face, which was distracting while we were trying to watch the game.”
The podcaster claimed that from her perspective — and from all the footage Swift appeared in from her own photos and videos during the game — Swift “didn’t seem nervous” and was instead “focused on the game.”
Molstad said Swift “handles the public reaction to her outings very well” and was pleased with her security guard’s response to the incident.
“He didn’t make a big scene,” Molstad said, saying “he just raised his hand and said, ‘I don’t care. These aren’t your seats.'” Molstad said that as a result, there “wasn’t really a massive confrontation.”
She also claimed that the “Cruel Summer” singer “is justified in handling this the way she needs to — none of us know what that level of attention feels like.”
She added: “It was distracting sitting in that section seeing how many people were yelling, holding up signs or stopping in the aisles instead of watching the game.”
Molstad also claimed that she even saw someone “pressed against the window of the suite turn around (Swift)”, and that she and her friend “alerted the police stationed outside his suite, and they kicked him out.”
“What this guy didn’t realize was that the glass is obscured with a board inside, so she couldn’t even see him,” Molstad said. She also noted that she and her pal are “huge Swifties” and “made it a point” not to add to the chaos by trying to “bother” the singer after the match.
It was obviously an eventful week for the “Opalite” hitmaker.
The Chiefs were victorious against the Chargers, with a final score of 22 to 6. Swift earned the victory alongside Caitlin Clark and Este Haim, who joined him in the sequel.
The incident occurred just a day after Swift attended the Academy Museum’s annual star-studded gala, where she performed her original song for “Toy Story 5,” “I Knew It, I Knew You” — for which she hopes to land an Oscar nomination.
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