It feels like we’ve gotten to watch every single moment of the Swift and Kelce relationship as it unfolds, but in truth, there’s a lot we don’t know. However, Kelce is opening up about how the two actually met, and apparently he had someone “playing Cupid” to help him get in touch with Swift.
“There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: Yo! Did you know he was coming? I had somebody playing Cupid,” Kelce told the WSJ magazine in a candid new interview. According to Kelce, Swift eventually got in touch with him directly. “She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.” (We would love to have heard that phone call or seen that text convo.) “When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there,” Kelce recounted. Clearly that initial meeting went well, given it led to that kiss in Buenos Aires and all the rest. “Everybody around me [was] telling me: ‘Don’t f*ck this up!’ And me sitting here saying, ‘Yeah, got it.’” Kelce isn’t intimidated by Swift’s mega-mega-fame or the laser-focus attention on them, though he has had to adapt to it. “I’ve never dealt with it, but at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it,” he shared. “The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.” Though Kelce said he has tried to keep their relationship relatively private, he said Swift is “hilarious” and “a genius” who writes “catchy jingles” and impresses him with her skills. “I’ve never been a man of words,” he shared. “Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been f*cking mind-blowing. I’m learning every day.” The two have also bonded over their family-centric values. “Everybody knows I’m a family guy,” Kelce explained. “Her team is her family. Her family does a lot of stuff in terms of the tour, the marketing, being around, so I think she has a lot of those values as well, which is right up my alley.” Kelce’s family clearly approves of Swift. His mom, Donna Kelce, told WSJ that her son is “happier than I’ve seen him in a long time” as of late. “God bless him, he shot for the stars!”
