I
t looks like Taylor Swift and
Katy Perry have shaken off
the animosity for good.
Though the two reconciled
months ago, it wasn’t until
Katy made a cameo in Taylor’s
“You Need to Calm Down”
music video that they began
opening up about their road to
forgiveness. “We wanted to
make sure that was solid
between us before we ever
made the public aware,” Taylor
explained, adding that once
they made up, “it was just like
something felt so much lighterabout my life.” News broke that
the two had iced each other out
in 2014, when Taylor accused
the American Idol judge of
poaching her backup dancers.
And after years of throwing
shade and taking digs at each
other, Katy decided it was time
to take the high road, sending
the “Me!” singer a literal olive
branch last May. “I realized how
much we have in common,”
Katy said. “And maybe there’s
only five other people in the
world that can have the same
type of conversations andunderstand where we’re coming
from, and we should celebrate
our commonality... and be able to
be there for each other.” Though
Katy admitted that clearing the
air “was a process,” they
eventually agreed to sit down
and hash things out. “[Taylor]
invited me over to her house
and made me cookies,” Katy
shared. “I can trust her and she
can trust me. And I think it’s
amazing that we have this
opportunity to change. I just
hope that other people can
learn from it too.”6 AUGUST 5, 2019 OK!HOW THEY
MENDED TIES
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TOGETHER
No food fights here! When
Taylor asked her former foe to
appear in her music video “she
was like, ‘I would love for us to
be a symbol of redemption
and forgiveness!’ ” Taylor
said of Katy’s
response.