Katy Perry Opened Up About "Catching Up" with Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour Post-Feud

Katy Perry and Taylor Swift put their bad blood to bed in 2018, one year before the “Dark Horse” singer made a surprise appearance in Swift’s Reputation-era “You Need to Calm Down” music video. Years after burying the hatchet on their feud, Perry proved that she’s as strong a squad member as ever as she opened up about what it was like “catching up” with Swift behind-the-scenes during an Eras Tour show last year. Perry–who shared a backstage selfie of her with the Grammy Award winner at the time–shared behind-the-scenes details about their most recent reunion last February.

The “Firework” singer revealed that she’d slipped in an Eras Tour stop amid her own performance schedule, telling U.K. radio station Capital in a TikTok interview posted January 17, “I actually went and did a show in Australia very quickly and I had one day off before the show and I was like, ‘Hey girl, I'm gonna come to the show.’”

Holding up an iPad displaying the sweet selfie that the pair had taken backstage, Perry continued, “[Swift] was so excited and I was so excited.” The singer also opened up about her experience with a Swiftie rite of passage– swapping friendship bracelets, a practice that was inspired by Swift's Midnights song “You’re on Your Own, Kid,” and the lyric “Make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it.”

“People gave me bracelets, and I think Rita Ora gave me a bracelet. I loved it,” she told the radio station. “It’s just like a big community—an adorable, sweet community.”

Speculation that Swift and Perry had beef first started circulating after they were both linked to John Mayer. Swift later opened up about her feud with Perry in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview, confirming rumors that Perry took Swift’s backup dancers for her own music tour.

“She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me,” Swift told the publication. “And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational—you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”

Meanwhile, Perry opened up being "super friendly" with Swift after they mended fences during a July 2020 interview on the Howard Stern Show. “Gossip in life can take the elevator but the truth takes the stairs. It just takes time,” Perry told the publication. "What I’m so grateful for is we did get to make up publicly and got to be an example of redemption for young girls. I always wanted the best for her and now we can talk about the best we want for each other.”

Read the original article on InStyle