Zoe Kravitz bathroom blunder at Taylor Swift's home while staying there amid Los Angeles fire

Economic Times

21 hours ago

Synopsis
Zoe Kravitz shared a funny incident on 'Late Night'. She and her mother, Lisa Bonet, stayed at Taylor Swift's house during wildfires. Bonet's snake, Orpheus, went into a hole in the bathroom. Kravitz and the house manager had to break the bathroom to get the snake out. Kravitz offered to pay for the damages. Swift already knew about the incident.
Kravitz has shared that Swift played a pivotal role in her close-knit 'pod' during the Covid-19 pandemic. Actress and filmmaker Zoe Kravitz had to make a choice between whether she would rather let a snake loose in the walls of Taylor Swift's home, or destroy her bathroom to prevent that? She went for the latter.Stopping by "Late Night" on Tuesday evening, the Blink Twice star recalled the chaotic debacle that unfolded when she and her mother, Lisa Bonet, were at Swift's Los Angeles home while evacuating during the wildfires.'My mom has a pet snake and so she came over with the snake,' she explained, 'We ended up having to stay there for maybe about two weeks.''Taylor has a very beautiful house from the '30s, it's just something you want to preserve and take care of,' Kravitz continued. '... It was the last day, I was gonna leave [for work], my mom was actually going to stay longer … and I was saying to my mom, 'I really want to be a good house guest … I don't want her to even know we were here.''The Batman star said while she was packing up, her mom called her. Zoe Kravitz found it quite strange as they were in the house together. 'She goes… 'I'm in a little bit of a pickle, can you come upstairs'… and she's [in] the bathroom and she's like crouched in the corner in this weird way,' recalled Kravitz. 'She's like, 'so I was washing my face and I had Orpheus (the snake's name) and I just put her down for a second, closed the door and she found this little hole in the corner.''
Kravitz said Bonet had managed to grab a hold of the snake's tail while it was halfway into a 'little hole' in the corner of Swift's bathroom.'The hole is next to a banquette that is built into the wall that has two drawers at the bottom,' she described. '... So I get down the ground, I take the drawers out [and] as this is happening, the snake is getting further and further [away]… I was panicking so much.'Kravitz said she eventually called the house manager, who arrived with a crowbar to 'tear apart' the banquette in a bid to retrieve the snake. 'We're ripping up the tile, we're scratching the walls … [We] completely destroyed Taylor's bathroom,' the actor admitted.Kravitz said she offered to pay for the repairs to the bathroom and not let Swift know until it was fixed.'I remember calling her and saying, 'Hey… I wanted to talk to you about something,'' recalled Kravitz. 'And she was like, 'Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in the house and destroyed my bathroom?''Kravitz has shared that Swift played a pivotal role in her close-knit 'pod' during the Covid-19 pandemic.While filming The Batman in London in 2020, Kravitz spent lockdown with the Anti-Hero singer and her longtime boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn. 'She was such an important part of my time in London—someone I could see, who made me home-cooked meals, and even hosted a birthday dinner for me,' Kravitz told GQ in 2022.More recently, the Big Little Lies star was spotted at Swift's Eras Tour in August 2024, attending one of the London shows alongside her former fiancé, Channing Tatum.