Taylor Swift had a ‘mini meltdown’ when she saw Jake Gyllenhaal at a party

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Here are some photos of Taylor Swift on the red carpet of the post-Golden Globes InStyle party with Lorde. Lorde and Swifty are tight. Swifty is tight with a lot of the younger ladies who attended the Globes on Sunday, like Lena Dunham and Emma Stone. So it was an obvious choice for Swifty to come out to party. She’s done this before: she’ll get all dressed up and attend post-awards bashes, like the post-Oscar Vanity Fair party (a favorite for Swifty). Back in 2011, Swifty attended the VF Oscar party seemingly just to confront her then-most-recent ex-boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal. That was years ago, right? The songs have been written and everyone is older and wiser, right? Right. So that’s why Swifty had a little freakout when she realized she was at the same party as Jake on Sunday:

She knew he was trouble? A-list exes Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal were packed together in the same star-studded Golden Globes afterparty on Sunday, Jan. 11, and Us Weekly has the exclusive details on what went down inside Hollywood hotspot Chateau Marmont. An observer tells Us that Globe nominee Gyllenhaal, 34, hit the center of the dance floor shortly after midnight, where he was flanked by beautiful women galore. British singer Rita Ora was one of his many admirers, and danced briefly with the hunky actor to Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman,” when their moment was interrupted by none other than Trophy Wife hottie Malin Akerman.

A flirty Akerman stole Gyllenhaal away while his big sister Maggie Gyllenhaal and The Affair star Ruth Wilson were animatedly chatting nearby. Moments after 2:00 a.m., Gyllenhaal’s superstar ex-girlfriend Swift — blade in a bright marigold Jenny Packham gown — was spotted on the dance floor, where she appeared to be stressed. “She wasn’t dancing,” the eyewitness tells Us, “but I saw her grab her friend’s hand and repeat, ‘We have to go. We have to go.'”

The observer tells Us that it appeared that Swift was trying to avoid her famous ex-boyfriend. The same observer notes that Swift, 25, scurried off the dance floor to the bathroom several times, where she ran into several pals including Cara Delevingne, Dakota Johnson, and (awkward!) Rita Ora. “The four girls were together and Taylor was having a mini meltdown,” the eyewitness reveals to Us. “Cara’s arm was around Taylor, calming her down as Rita looked on. They were talking extremely closely.”

After she walked out of the bathroom, Swift was seen frantically walking around in a circle in the lobby. “She couldn’t find her friends and her makeup was smudged,” the onlooker tell Us. Finally, the 1989 hit maker found Delevingne, and the two had a little pow-wow on a bench outside of the party venue.

According to the eyewitness, Swift and Gyllenhaal did not interact at all inside the bash. Before Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s party, the exes also attended the Weinstein and Netflix Golden Globes bash at the Beverly Hilton, where they were seen having fun with pals separately.

[From Us Weekly]

It looks like Selena Gomez isn’t the only one getting all middle-school drama-queen about an ex. Considering all that’s happened in the years since Jake and Swifty’s two-month cuddlefest, you’d think that they would both be over it at this point. But I guess not. Taylor Swift is on top of the world in so many ways, so it’s interesting to realize that she’s still the same girl who will have a cry with some girlfriends about the ex at a party. Here’s another thing though: Jake was actually nominated for a Globe. Of course he was going to come out. Taylor went to the parties knowing that there was a good chance they would run into each other.

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  1. Kiki04 says:

    She’s dated half of Hollywood, seems like she should learn how to better deal with running into her ex-es? It’s not like it’s never going to happen, Swifty.

    • polonoscopy says:

      I’m with Lainey on this one. I don’t think she was freaking out over Jake. I think it was a bad trip.

      • Kiki04 says:

        Lainey has a good update today about how US Weekly is changing their story, that Taylor ran into Jake and everything was hunky-dory. I’m not sure I believe it, I have to think everything with Swift is drama…..

      • Pandy says:

        Ooh I haven’t read lainey yet today but I was just coming on to comment that it sound like a substance-use meltdown lol.

      • Veruca Salt says:

        Haha it probably was a bad trip 😜

    • Maria says:

      exactly. its weird if you run into ONE ex… in Hollywood its even easier. if basically everbody slept with each other at one point the whole akwardness goes away.

    • annaloo. says:

      Shake it off Taytay!!

    • Nikki says:

      She hasn’t dated half of Hollywood at all.

  2. David says:

    Can’t wait for the new song she will be writing. Not!

  3. You know how I think about Swifty when I read the headline and think it’s true…lol. She’s just one of those women, I think, that are stuck in high school mode. I don’t understand why people just don’t ignore their ex/person who did them wrong/went behind their backs. One of my aunts recently took issue to something I did/didn’t do ON MY OWN TIME (when I could’ve been doing stuff like HOMEWORK), and decided to bitch about it, behind my back, to my dad. Instead of talking to me. So instead of going there with her (because it ALWAYS ends the same), I just decided to be through with her. I unfriended her on FB, and don’t talk to her. SO EASY. Why everything has to be DRAMA DRAMA I’M A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE DRAMA LOOK AT MY CUTE KITTEN AND OUTFIT DRAMA OOH I’M BESTIES WITH SO AND SO DRAMA with Swifty, I don’t know. She seems like all she does is talk shit about her exes…

    • Aysla says:

      Ha! The aunt thing sounds so familiar, that could have been me back in high school. 🙂 I did the same as you (cut her off), and it took a while for my aunt and I to get over that speed bump; the end resulting being that she learned to respect my boundaries and, at the very least, keep her gossip out of my orbit.

      Are you Latin? Meddling aunt gives me that vibe. Dominican here! *waves*

  4. OSTONE says:

    Really Swifty? I mean, if you are going to have a drunken meltdown about an ex of three years ago.. At least let it be an ex you date longer than two months!!! sighs if this is true, I am disappointed at her. So much for “empowerment”.

    • Jag says:

      Exactly!

    • Veronica says:

      Eh…I don’t entirely think that’s the truth of went down, though I will say I don’t think getting upset over an ex means that you aren’t empowered. It’s not fair to say women have to be strong ALL THE TIME, EVERY TIME in order to be “tough.” Everybody has weak moments. I had an ex that for YEARS after we broke up, I would be scrambling to avoid any interaction if I crossed them on the streets, and we were only seriously together for a month or two. (We’d been good friends before that.)

      Being strong doesn’t sacrificing your emotions. You can’t control those – you just have to learn to control your reactions, which can take a lot of time and experience. And in Hollywood, the school of arrested emotional development? I can see it taking longer than most.

    • JenniferJustice says:

      Swift would do well to realize that freaking out over exes or anybody else she doesn’t want to be around only gives them power. Nobody owns the space they’re in (unless they’re home). Awards shows and after parties are everybody’s space and they all have a right to be there, so it’s better to smile and kill them with kindness rather than be melodramatic.

  5. SpookySpooks says:

    I don’t buy this.

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      Neither do I. The girl is many things, out of control is not one of them. She worked her ass off to change her image and I highly doubt she’d be this careless. IF there was a scene, she was probably drunk or something. The girl is a control freak. No way this happened over Jake G. and in public no less.

    • Cici says:

      I can’t remember who, but one of the film critics/reporters I follow attended the party and mentioned some Taylor Swift drama happening in the bathrooms.

      I have no idea whether it was Gyllenhaal related but there are several stories confirming something went on.

      • ell says:

        Do you have a link? All the reports i’ve seen were different, in fact they were talking about Taylor having a lot of security while she & her friends were in the bathroom. i think there might be some truth in it, like… Taylor went to the bathroom and the drama is that they shut it down because she had security with her, but that’s as far as it went imo.

      • InvaderTak says:

        @ell: Security? At an industry party and in the bathrooms? If that’s true I’m judging harder for that than for the meltdown.

      • Liv says:

        Lainey also says that she was at the bathroom – maybe she was on drugs?

      • Maria says:

        that doesnt mean its two sources, the best bet is one is copy pasting from the other.

    • Esmom says:

      That’s what I came here to say. The tabs realized they were in the same place at the same time and saw their opportunity to spin some BS.

    • Kittén says:

      Yeah it’s the same tired Swift narrative that the tabs are always pushing. I seriously doubt that she’s not WAY over Jake at this point.

  6. EKP says:

    Assuming it’s all true that is…

  7. Abbott says:

    Sigh.

    Anyone see Lainey’s weird comment about this situation?

    • steffie says:

      Yes, I guess that does make more sense then crying over an ex you dated for 2 months 3 years ago…

      • Abbott says:

        I just can’t see her doing anything hard than Mr Sketch scented markers.

      • mimif says:

        Lol Abbot +1 Sharpie

      • Kittén says:

        I can see it.
        I think it’s almost mandatory that you take recreationals if you’re a celeb attending an awards show after party.

        I know I had some panic-y, head-trippy moments when I candy-flipped in college.

    • ell says:

      lainey is just guessing.

      • QQ says:

        she is but … who hangs out with delevigne except drug using celebs (casually or not) and models and Bi chicks?

      • Amy says:

        QQ’s making me go, “Hmmm.”

      • ell says:

        look at it this way, whether you like taylor or not she’s good at controlling her image. I’m sure she could potentially use… something. Or drink a lot, like most 20 something do, so it’s entirely possible. Still, that was a big night that was going to attract a lot of attention, I can buy her doing it on other nights out, not so publicly though. It just doesn’t go with everything else she does.

        Also, this thing of hanging out with Cara and Rita Ora (lol) is new to me. I’m sure they were hanging out as they were at the same party, still Taylor was there with Lorde, Selena and the Haim sisters why are they not mentioned at all? Instead she was being comforted by Rita Ora? Idk, it sounds so fanfictiony to me.

    • Aura says:

      Yes… and I sort of think Lainey made a good point

      • Abbott says:

        Really? I’m so floored by this. What do people look like when they’re tripping? Where are her glow sticks in those photos? So many questions…

      • mimif says:

        Yeah, I’m not buying it. Swift is too much of a control freak to do psychoactives at a huge industry party. Maybe a little bit of blow, but the only way you’re gonna have a meltdown with that sh-t is when you run out. And obviously that’s not going to be the case here. Sounds more like boy drama to me.

      • Bridget says:

        I’m going to guess Lainey was just bored, because I can’t picture T Swift choosing to trip there, let alone deciding to at all. Plus Cara is trying to break into acting, it’s at least a little possible she knew that was neither the time nor the place to party hard.

      • Kittén says:

        But this is one of the few times that Swift could be at a party and the focus wouldn’t be on her, you know?

      • Veronica says:

        I guess I don’t think the idea of her doing drugs is so shocking to me because my impression from a lot of industry regulars is that it’s EVERYWHERE and EVERYONE does it whether it’s just a few times or habit. It’s the ones that can’t control it that publicly become the “addicts.” Snorting coke at the after party is the celebrity version of passing the joint amidst high school pals. Hell, I’ve known plenty of people in my own life who’ve done the hard drugs without becoming addicts that I can say it’s more common than people think. Add outrageous amounts of money, prestige, and people paid to cover up your f*cks ups? I’d be amazed if there’s one among them who isn’t doing/hasn’t done it.

    • Talie says:

      I think she’s right… this sounds like paranoia. It especially makes sense if you see the BlindGossip item about what Cara was doing at the Globes parties.

      • OriginalTessa says:

        Paranoia, maybe, but I don’t see LSD or shrooms as Taylor’s party drugs of choice. If she did the odd line of coke I wouldn’t bat an eye, but I just can’t see her doing anything that would distort her perception or possibly hinder her control. Control is her drug. She doesn’t lose it; ever.

      • mimif says:

        Oops, just said the same thing up thread.

      • Kittén says:

        Control?
        It’s not like an after-school special, guys. You don’t take a hit of acid and start tearing your hair out or screaming about bugs.

        Maybe she just hit a dip in her waves and felt like she needed a change of scenery hence the “we have to go, guys.”

        *shrugs*

        Also, I love the sinister insinuation behind “smudged eye makeup”.
        Hell I have smudged eye makeup right now just from my face melting under these fluorescent lights.

      • mimif says:

        Ha, yeah there’s nfw I would do any psychoactives and hit a party like that, because I do have a tendency to *occasionally* freak out a little bit when I’m on them, and I always have. All I’m saying is that given Taylor’s tendency to manage (control) her public persona to the nth degree, I highly doubt that she would want to risk rolling that long at a big deal event. (Can you imagine the epic fallout if she got busted??) I do, however, think McBigInJapan is correct in postulating that Swifty wasn’t the focus of all the attention for once and wanted to bounce.

      • KittenMcMuffin says:

        She was hanging with HAIM ffs. No way that those ladies don’t drop.

        Also, what explains the US Weekly update to the story where they claim an eyewitness saw Taylor running up to Jake to give him a hug and that they looked like “old friend catching up”.

        I don’t know…. I just hate the Desperate Female Who’s Happiness Hinges on Men narrative. It’s all so tired. Why doesn’t anyone float a story about Leo crying because he saw Victoria’s Secret Model Number Seven talking to Adam Levine?

      • mimif says:

        Maybe I’m just old fashioned. I seriously cannot imagine doing anything but a sh-t load of cocaine at a party like that. 😉

      • KittenMcMuffin says:

        You wouldn’t roll at a party, mimif?

      • QQ says:

        LOL yeah Kitten Go look at those pics, The Haim Girls LOOK all types of sh!tfaced

      • mimif says:

        Hell no! I’ll drop at an anonymous event like a concert or you know, that one me time I *accidentally* popped a sugar cube at 9am…but only in situations where I can bolt if I have to. When I have a job to do, or look a certain part, cocaine is the only thing I will touch. Pyschoactives are unreliable for me; that’s why I cant do weed either, sh-t makes me paranoid AF. Obviously God cursed me for doing horrible things in a past life. 😀

  8. Tifygodess24 says:

    Is it wrong to wonder if Taylor’s “breakdown” could have been more from the drinking and coking variety ( See Cara ) and less of the Jake G thing? I mean it is Taylor sure but anyone who hangs with Cara kind of makes me side eye considering she’s know for her “hard partying” ways. A weird combo for sure.

    • raptor says:

      Yeah, the repeated trips to the bathroom make it sound as though that’s what they’re trying to imply.

    • Nola says:

      I caught that as well. It’s well known that Cara is good for the nose candy. With US Weekly repeatly mentioning Swifty and Cara D going into a bathroom they are implying a lot more than girl talk pick me ups.

      However, I’m not sure if Taylor is the type to indulge in that particular activity.

  9. Kali says:

    I will be seriously disappointed in the Internet if someone hasn’t made a montage of “Nightcrawler” clips to “We are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together”… (That was the song about Gyllenhaal, right?)

  10. ell says:

    read the article linked. they changed the story about a 1000 times, the one reported here was the first version (which sounds a lot like fanfiction), and it has been changed since. it sounds like a lot of crap; this girl has dated a few, meets exes at events quite regularly and nothing ever happened before. i really doubt there’s any truth whatsoever in this.

    • Didn’t she freak out on him at a Golden Globes party the first/last time they broke up? Something like they were in the same room at a pre-GG party, and then she pulled him off to the side to talk??? Or was that a rumor?

      • ell says:

        That might have been a rumour as well, but even if it were true it was different then. First of all at the time it was a recent split, she was younger and it was just talking not some meltdown with smeared makeup and crying with your girlfriends… I mean, I would have understood if this happened years ago, but after several years and several other boyfriends? Nah. Also, like I said, the fact they changed the story about 4 times (and I’m not even joking) it’s very telling imo.

      • Bridget says:

        That so in more like Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

    • Duckie says:

      +1

  11. Belle Epoch says:

    But… but… I remember those dumb pictures of them going out for coffee years ago, and people saying it was obviously a fauxmance. Two seconds later it was over and she wrote the requisite song. Either this isn’t true, or she really is an emotionally stunted cat lady.

  12. Emily says:

    Nice try Jake’s publicist!

    • We Are All Made of Stars says:

      Uh, Jake is nominated for a Golden Globe. The last thing his publicist needs for him is to be brought into embarrassing and never ending tween drama with a whining pop tartlet who’s completely irrelevant to both adulthood and the movie industry.

      • Moffa says:

        Seriously. I imagine his publicist wants him as far away from the memory of him and Taylor as possible. She might be on top of the industry right now, but she still has a certain reputation and their 2 month fling is still a complete and utter joke.

    • Esmom says:

      Lol. Although I don’t think this is true, it’s just tabloids being tabloids.

  13. Nerdmomma says:

    Isn’t it possible that a woman might be upset over something other than a man? Just because this eyewitness noted that her ex was present at the party doesn’t mean that’s what Taylor was upset about.

  14. Jess says:

    People reports a completely different story, and one that sounds less like fanfiction too:

    “Just before heading into the party, Swift briefly stood in the lobby of the hotel with her former beau, Jake Gyllenhaal, and introduced him to her gaggle of friends – including the members of the pop rock band Haim.

    This is not the first time Swift, 25, and Gyllenhaal, 34, have run into each other since they broke up in late 2010 after a few months of dating.

    “It seemed like they were catching up,” a source told PEOPLE in 2011 after the two bumped into each other at an Oscars after-party. ”

    http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20881790_20891475,00.html

    • Lb says:

      This sounds more likely especially because Taylor said the guy most of Red was written about (Jake) reached out to her after listening to it and it was a positive interaction between them. Jake seems to stay friends with most of his exes (maybe not Kristen but the other ones).

      That said, the US Weekly version of the story is way funnier given the length of the relationship and how long ago it occurred.

    • vauvert says:

      I believe this version – much more likely, honestly.

    • Kori says:

      There was another story I saw today saying they gave each other a hug and chatted a bit.

    • M says:

      Now US Weekly is reporting the same story of People magazine. I think the first wasn’t good for Taylor because people were suggesting it was more about drugs than about Jake.
      There is also a story about Jake and Reese being friendly, it sounded much better compared to the story of Taylor. I think Taylor’s publicist ran with the story of them being friendly to dispel any rumor on drugs.

    • Abby says:

      I believe this more. The other sounds like fan fiction.

  15. NewWester says:

    What will Taylor think when she finds out Leo Decapiro and Rhianna may have hooked up?

    • ell says:

      did they though? Rihanna is 26, so she’s probably too old for Leo 😛

      • NewWester says:

        There is a post on this site that Leo and Rhianna may have “hooked up ” during the holidays. I don’t believe it either, Rhianna is “too old” for Leo !

  16. Amy Tennant says:

    You know how people sometimes have that one big EX that gets under their skin and kind of messes them up for years? I always had the impression that Jake, despite the actual length of the relationship, really got to Taylor. This story is probably sexist BS though.

    • Snazzy says:

      Yes I was just thinking that. Don’t many of us have that one person that has such a strong effect on us?

    • Blythe says:

      There was this wild rumor that Jake was Taylor’s first and once he got what he wanted, he left her.

      I don’t believe that for one second, but it’s still crazy.

  17. scout says:

    Get over it swiftly, been 2 yrs alreadyl!! Gawd!!! NO, leave that Crapio guy alone too, that doesn’t end well either. See if Cara Delevingne is available, she has been humping every girl in sight these days, including Jenner girl.

  18. Megan says:

    Why is Lorde wearing her jog bra? Did she forget to put on her shirt?

  19. Ana says:

    “We cry tears of mascara in the bathroom. Honey, life is just a classroom”
    That’s from her ‘New Romantics’ song. Enough said 😛

    Not really, maybe that’s proof it’s true or the writer of that gossip took inspiration in her song lol

  20. littlestar says:

    After reading the article and then all the comments, I’m going to go with the drug theory too. Makes sense to me.

  21. kri says:

    I am going with the “Too Much Up The Snout Theory”. I saw footage of her coming out of a limo frantically wiping her nose. Could have been just that, but I think girlfriend has been snorting sparkly,cherry-jam scented Pixie Dust from Colombia.

    • M says:

      I’ve had a nasty cold for a month & am always wiping my nose. I’m giving her the benefit of doubt here. I just think this story is made up & who knows why she was upset? It could be coke or cat related.

    • Ana says:

      Can we please stop associating Colombia with cocaine? It infuriates me. There’s so much more to the country than violence and drugs. Pretty rude if you ask me.

  22. maria1981 says:

    isn’t this “girl” a 25 year old WOMAN? BEHAVE LIKE ONE.

  23. Alyce says:

    I think this is all BS and that the drug stories are ridiculous conjecture.

  24. Marianne says:

    And yet I read another article today that said that they both said hello to each other and they hugged.

  25. Veronica says:

    I liked Lainey’s suggestion that it may have been a bad trip because…well, it’s a lot funnier, eh? What do we think a bad trip for Tay is like? Does she hallucinate the ex suddenly pulling a guitar and discovering a hitherto unknown talent for writing revenge songs? Does Katy Perry dance by in spangly leather with rogue backup dancers behind her? Flying kittens with unicorn horns? WE WANTS TO KNOW.

  26. Jessica says:

    It might not have been about Jake, but the rest of the story seems to be true. A few unrelated people who were also at the party tweeted about her behavior and it was mentioned in a couple of articles people wrote about attending the after-parties. This isn’t just Us Weekly pulling a story out of thin air, people saw her having a major freak-out at the party.

  27. serena says:

    I kind of think Swifty really had a big crush on Jake, and still does in a sense. He’s the one she’s still making a huge fuss on.