Lorde Apologizes for Comparing Her Friendship With Taylor Swift to an Autoimmune Disease
I honestly don't know how to feel about this. It's like having a friend with an autoimmune disease. TMZ reports the relationship was reignited last week when Rob showed up to Chyna's house and just...didn't leave. Some examples:When confronted Monday on Twitter by an editor who referred to the singer's comments as "ignorant," Lorde finally addressed the controversy smartly and succinctly. While Lorde was talking about famous friends in a broad sense (she does, in fact, have plenty of them), the admittedly insensitive quote was chopped and screwed into something more headline-worthy than what it actually was.
Lorde has apologized after comparing friendship with Taylor Swift to a friend with an autoimmune disease in an interview with the Guardian over the weekend. i'm sorry 🌹 — Lorde (@lorde) June 20, 2017Maybe Lorde didn't say the name "Taylor Swift," but if not, it's probably because she learned the hard way how relatively mundane gossip becomes headline news the moment pop's reigning princess is attached (see Perry, Katy). It's like having a friend with an autoimmune disease."On Twitter, Lorde responded to a fan who asked how someone with autoimmune disease—like Swift's other friend Selena Gomez, who has lupus—was supposed to feel about the analogy. Read the quote and you'll see how she ended up sinking in this metaphorical quicksand:On the difficulty of maintaining a friendship with someone as famous as Taylor Swift: "It's like having a friend with very specific allergies. didn't mention taylor, but regardless, i fucked up & that was really insensitive.
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