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No more “Bad Blood.”
Lorne Michaels claims Taylor Swift once asked him to kill a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that poked fun at the singer’s “girl squad” — but he stood his ground and refused.
In a new interview with Vulture, the “SNL” creator recalled the time he contacted Swift’s management team with a request for the pop superstar to make a surprise cameo on the show. The sketch he wanted Swift for would be a spoof of her “Bad Blood” music video, reimagined as an apocalyptic cult in 2015.
Michaels, 80, claimed that Swift, 35, subsequently called him directly and asked him to cut the sketch, while also telling him she would not be making a cameo.
Michaels told the outlet that he listened to Swift’s points, but he ultimately decided that he wanted to do the sketch anyway.
“Taylor, I do not negotiate with terrorists,” Michaels allegedly told her at the time.
After the sketch aired, Michaels received a bouquet of flowers in his office from the “Cruel Summer” singer.
“I hope there’s no bad blood,” Swift wrote on the note.
Both Michaels and Swift seemed to take the sentiment to heart, since Swift appeared as show’s musical guest in 2017, 2019 and 2021.
She also made a surprise cameo to introduce Ice Spice as the musical guest in 2023.
The “Bad Blood” spoof starred Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as they formed their “Dope Squad” with guests Amy Schumer, Gayle King and Robert Downey Sr.