2020-02-10 Us Weekly

Remember that wholesome, smiling people pleaser Taylor

Swift? She can’t come to the phone right now — or ever! In the

fascinating Netf lix documentary Miss Americana — which

premiered Jan. 23 at the Sundance Film Festival — the pop star speaks

frankly about her struggles with an eating disorder, her psychological

trauma stemming from the Kanye West MTV VMAs incident and how

her own #MeToo experience led to her first public political endorsement,

of a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. (During

the premiere, her line about the decision, “Even if this doesn’t work,

at least I tried,” led to spontaneous applause.) On stage after the film,

Swift, 30, was greeted with a standing ovation as well as loud shrieking

from members of her fan club, who’d lined up for hours to get in. Visibly

overwhelmed, Swift took a moment to praise her director, Lana Wilson.

“For so much of my life in the public eye, when I get sad or humiliated or

angry or go through a really horrible time, I feel like people are trying to

lean in. There’s this hunger,” she told Wilson. “You never did that.”

MADE HER DO

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Miss Americana

is available on

Netflix starting

Jan. 31.

O Jessie J (above, left)

gazing lovingly at boyfriend

Channing Tatum at the Fiji

Water-sponsored Republic

Records post-Grammy

party in L.A.

O Patrick J. Adams work-

ing out on an elliptical at

Equinox in Hollywood.

O Jay-Z pairing red wine

with pizza while chatting

with two pals during dinner

at Jon & Vinny’s in L.A.

O Maya Rudolph grab-

bing dinner with her three

daughters at Joan’s on

Third in Studio City, Calif.

O Kesha performing

Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got

a Gun” in a tribute to the

band at the MusiCares

event in L.A.

O Zendaya complimenting

another customer’s “ador-

able” baby while shopping

with Timothée Chalamet at

Bed Bath & Beyond on

NYC’s Upper West Side.

O Jamie-Lynn Sigler

eating doughnuts with hus-

band Cutter Dykstra and

their sons, Beau and Jack,

at Fonuts in Studio City.

O Shawn Mendes ordering

food at the counter of Zin-

qué in West Hollywood.

TAYLOR SWIFT

(^24) | FEBRUARY 10, 2020