Emily Ratajkowski Slams Ellen DeGeneres After 2012 Taylor Swift Interview Resurfaces

Emily Ratajkowski called out Ellen DeGeneres for her treatment of Taylor Swift during a 2012 interview after the clip recently resurfaced on social media.

“This is so f–ked up. She’s literally begging her to stop,” the 31-year-old model commented on a clip of Swift’s interview on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that has since gone viral on TikTok.

In the clip, which was uploaded by TikTok user thatnostalgicgirl Friday, Swift, now 33, appeared uncomfortable while sitting on a chair across DeGeneres, now 64, as the host openly speculated about the pop star’s dating life.

DeGeneres flashed images of famous men, including Taylor Lautner, Justin Bieber, Joe Jonas and Justin Timberlake, on the screen behind them and told Swift to “ring a bell” every time the singer saw a picture of one of the men she dated.

However, Swift didn’t ring the bell. Instead, she pleaded with DeGeneres to stop, telling the TV host that she wanted to keep “the one shred of dignity that I have.”

“I don’t want to [do it]. They’ll send me angry emails, and I don’t want to get them,” the “Anti-Hero” singer explained.

DeGeneres decided to hold the bell for Swift and rang it when Bieber’s and Jonas’ photos flashed on the screen. The host rang the bell again when Timberlake’s snap with Swift was shown, but the singer said, “We didn’t date.” Swift also said the same when she saw a photo of herself with Ashton Kutcher.

When an image of Cory Monteith appeared, Swift told the host, “Why are you doing this?” But DeGeneres rang the bell, and the slideshow went on to show Rob Lowe’s photo.

“Stop it, stop it, stop!” Swift exclaimed. “This makes me feel so bad about myself. Every time I come up here, you put a different dude up there on the screen, and it just makes me really question what I stand for as a human being.”

Years later, Swift seemingly spoke out about the interview without naming DeGeneres.

During a 2019 conversation with Apple Beats’ Zane Lowe, the “Shake It Off” singer recounted how interviewers reduced her to the men she had dated in the early years of her career.

“When I was like 23, people were just kind of reducing me to — kind of making slideshows of my dating life and putting people in there that I’d sat next to at a party once and deciding that my songwriting was like a trick rather than a skill and a craft,” Swift told Lowe, Page Six reported.

She continued, “It’s a way to take a woman who is doing her job and succeeding at doing her job and making things, and it’s, in a way, it’s figuring out how to completely minimize that skill.”