Taylor Swift has addressed rumours she secretly dated some of her female pals - insisting her friendships with women were "sensationalised" and "sexualised".
Taylor Swift has claimed her female friendships were 'sexualised' by gossips
The 33-year-old pop star has opened up about her love life in a candid prologue written to accompany her latest rerecorded album '1989 (Taylor's Version)' - revealing she "swore off" dating because she couldn't just hang out with a man without being accused of dating him but she claims spending time with her female friends backfired too.
She wrote: "It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with. If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so, I swore off hanging out with guys. Dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponised against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era ..."
Taylor added: "I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships. If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalise or sexualise that right? I would learn later on that people could and people would."
The singer has previously insisted she is a supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community even though she's not part of it.
Speaking in 2019, she told Vogue: "Rights are being stripped from basically everyone who isn’t a straight white cisgender male. I didn’t realise until recently that I could advocate for a community that I’m not a part of.
"It’s hard to know how to do that without being so fearful of making a mistake that you just freeze. Because my mistakes are very loud. When I make a mistake, it echoes through the canyons of the world."
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