“I had someone playing Cupid,” Kelce told the ‘WSJ. Magazine’ for the cover of the December/January issue
Travis Kelce tells his “Love Story.”
In a new extensive cover interview WSJ. MagazineIn the December/January issue, the NFL superstar, 34, explains how his relationship with Taylor Swift began — and spares few details!
“I don’t know if I want to get into all that,” Kelce said during the discussion, before finally addressing his failed first attempt to meet the musician at her Eras Tour performance in July. Kelce previously shared the story during one of his episodes New heights with Jason and Travis Kelce podcast, but now includes some important new details.
“There were definitely people she knew who knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: Oh! Did you know it was coming? I had someone playing Cupid,” Kelce told the paper, adding that he eventually found out from Swift when she contacted him directly.
“She told me exactly what was going on and how I was lucky enough to get her to give me her hand,” he said.
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As Kelce said WSJ. Magazine, several members of the Swift family even helped him get her attention. “She’s probably going to hate me for saying this, but…when she came to Arrowhead, they gave her a big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins took pictures…in front of my locker,” He said.
As for their first meeting, Kelce was honest. “When I met her in New York, we were already kind of talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there, goes from there,” he said.
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Elsewhere during Kelce’s discussion with reporter JR Moehringer, the Kansas City Chiefs opened up about his relationship with his brother Jason and his mother Donna’s feelings for Swift, and he explained that he’s “never dated someone with that aura before” 12 – multiple Grammy winner.
“I’ve never been into that,” Kelce added of Swift. “But at the same time, I don’t run away from any of that… The scrutiny she gets, how much she’s grown on herself, every day, the paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she she’s just living, enjoying life. When she’s acting like that, I better not be the one acting weird.”
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Kelce, who called Swift both “hilarious” and a “genius,” also revealed that he and the pop superstar share a similar outlook on family and work.
“Everybody knows I’m a family man,” he said. “Her team is her family. Her family does a lot of things in terms of touring, marketing, presence, so I think she has a lot of those values as well, which is in the right direction for me.”
WSJ. Magazine The December/January issue will be on newsstands on December 9.
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