Taylor Swift Has a Gnarly Glue Gun Scar

Taylor Alison Swift
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Mar 12, 2025
Jimmy talks to Taylor Swift about the origin of her "Ew!" character, Natalie, and her obsession with crafts as a child.
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Jimmy!
That's what you look like.
Oh, my gosh.
I've only met Natalie, this girl,
who I saw on Team Nick that looks a lot like you.
People say that. People say that.
But, you know, like, I think that the whole
tri-tails situation...
Yeah, she's not just do ponytails.
Not two pigtails.
There's a third. There were three of them.
It was a tri-tail with a lot of scrunchie going on up there.
Yeah.
And she was very interested in creating a PegaCon.
You sent us a list of things that your character likes
about three weeks ago.
That she has a Band-Aid collection.
What does that even mean?
How did you come up with this character?
Okay, well, on the real, the whole, like,
I'm Natalie.
I like to create Popsicle stick castles by myself sometimes.
That's actually a story from my own childhood.
No.
So, yeah, I have this scar.
Sad.
I have this scar on my leg, and it's a very prominent scar
that I've had for probably since I was 10 or 11.
And everybody always asks me about it,
and they're like, wow, that's a pretty significant scar
that's lasted a really long time.
What's that from?
And I end up telling them.
And at first, I would tell people like it was a normal thing,
that, you know, when I was 10, I would sit up in my attic
and make castles out of Popsicle sticks,
and I used a super industrial-strength hot glue gun
because I was really serious about it.
Oh, no.
Yeah, and so one day,
I was really aggressively creating a slide.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
This is such a nerdy story.
You were creating a slide out of Popsicle sticks.
Yeah, because I had these little toy bears that lived in it.
And they needed a little playground.
They needed a slide.
Of course. How did they get out of their castle?
Yeah, it needs to be fun for them.
And I was creating a slide, and I was just like,
glue, glue, glue, glue, glue, glue, glue.
And then suddenly, I was gluing off the table,
and a big glob of just like hot glue was just there.
And I was like, oh, and your first instinct is to go,
oh, I'll just pull that off.
And then, you know, you pull off 17 layers of skin with it.
Oh, my God.
That is, yeah!
That is so...
Yeah.
Gosh.
So that's how I came up with Natalie.
It was a traumatic childhood story.
Well, you sent us a video, also, of you wearing braces,
and you were just improvising as Natalie.
Yeah. And you said, ew.
No, ew. Ew.
Ew. That's what she says, ew.
I felt like, I don't know why I got so into this,
but I love the ew sketch.
I love, like, when Zac Efron came on
and was just like a beautiful lady.
He's a good-looking lady, yeah.
He's a really good lady.
We were so mad at him, yeah.
Because I'm clearly not a good-looking lady.
And then Seth Rogen's got, like, the beard.
He's like, ow!
Yeah, he wasn't even changing his voice.
He's got a full beard, yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
And basically, I just fell in love with that sketch,
and I love seeing when you do it.
So I started thinking, what would I ever do
if I ever got to do that?
And I was like, you know what?
I think I want to tap into sort of a different kind of friend
that Sarah would have.
I think she needs to be from out of town.
I think she needs to...
You thought of so many things.
I got really deep with the character.
But you had braces from SNL, when you hosted SNL?
Yeah, the last time I hosted SNL
was probably four or five years ago,
and I did this sketch with Kristen Wiig
where we were driving, and she was my mom,
and I was an irritated pre-teen daughter.
And they gave me this kind of, like, braces retainer,
but the teeth came on it.
Yeah, so they're, like...
Like, the teeth were attached.
Whereas I show up today, and he gives me this sort of
Yeah, just perfect, nice, beautiful braces.
Not like the SNL crap.
You guys are so high-tech.
This is a tonight show. We don't fool around here.
You were great on Satellite, by the way.
Would you ever host again?
Oh, thank you.
Well, I had such an amazing time with it,
and I was so proud of how it turned out
that I haven't done it since
because I just kind of figured...
Oh, come on. ...that was so fun.
No, you can do it again. You have to.
But now I feel like enough time might have passed
to where I would feel like I could go do it again and just...
Yeah! That's what I'm talking about.
Do it!
Do it? You should, yeah!
Are you going to get in my face again?
Like, you're a lot, pretty little liar.
Pretty little liar.
You were this close to my face.
You're a, like, pretty little liar.
I was trying to make you laugh.
That's so...
