Zoรซ Kravitz may not be allowed to use the bathroom at Taylor Swift’s house anytime soon.
The “Blink Twice” star and director shared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Aug. 12 that she and her mother, actor Lisa Bonet, got themselves into a slippery situation that resulted in a bathroom at Swift’s home being “completely destroyed.”
Kravitz, 36, who has struck up a friendship with Swift in recent years, told Meyers that the singer let Kravitz and Bonet stay at her home when the two had to evacuate their own homes during the wildfires in the Los Angeles area in January.
“My mom has a pet snake, and so she has her evacuation stuff, (and) she came over with the snake,” Kravitz said. “We ended up having to stay there for maybe about two weeks.”
The snake almost ended up staying much longer at Swift’s home, which Kravitz called “a beautiful house” from the 1930s that “you want to preserve and take care of.”
Kravitz was getting ready to move out of Swift’s home for work and wanted to make sure everything was in order.
“I was kind of packing up my things, and I was saying to my mom, โI want to be a good houseguest. I like to leave places better than I found them. I don’t want her to even know we were here,'” Kravitz said.
As she was cleaning up, Kravitz said she received a phone call from Bonet, 57, who was upstairs.
โShe goes ‘Hi!’ and I’m like, ‘Your voice is super high,'” Kravitz said. “And she’s like, ‘Um, I’m in a little bit of a pickle, can you come upstairs?'”
“So I open the bathroom door, and she’s, like, crouched in the corner in this weird way, and I’m like, ‘What’s going on, dude?'” Kravitz recalled. “She’s like, ‘So, I was washing my face, and I had Orpheus (the snakeโs name), and I just put her down for a second, closed the door, and she found this little hole in the corner.'”
Kravitz recounted that Orpheus had slithered into a hole in the corner of the bathroom, and Bonet was holding on to the snake’s tail.
“The hole is next to a banquette that is built into the wall that has two drawers at the bottom,” she said. “So she’s holding the snake’s tail. They’re all muscle โ they’re very, very strong. So she’s holding this snake’s tail, we don’t know what to do.
“I’m like, ‘OK, maybe this hole goes into the drawers.’ So I get down on the ground, I take the drawers out, start to panic, (and) as this is happening, the snake is getting further and further (away),” she continued, adding, “I was panicking so much that my mom likes to say, ‘If I had both hands, I would’ve slapped you.’ Like, ‘Get it together!’ I’m like, ‘Mom, I can’t bring you anywhere.'”
In a slapstick scene like something out of Kravitz’s hilarious, accidentally drug-fueled moment in a hotel room in “The Studio,” the mother and daughter had lost the snake in the walls of the bathroom.
Kravitz ended up contacting Swift’s house manager.
“So he gets a crowbar and starts having to tear apart this banquette,” Kravitz said. “We’re ripping up the tile, we’re scratching the walls … completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom.”
Kravitz told the house manager she would pay to have the bathroom fixed and urged the manager not to tell Swift until the repairs were complete.
Once the snake got into the hole, Kravitz and Bonet faced two bad options.
“There was just this moment where I was like, ‘Either we destroy her bathroom, or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house,'” Kravitz said.
Then she had to tell Swift what happened.
“I remember calling her and saying, ‘Hey, I wanted to talk to you about something,'” Kravitz said. “And she was like, ‘Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in the house and destroyed my bathroom?'”
“I feel like that snake’s going to get, like, three songs on the next album,” Meyers quipped, one day after Swift announced her new album was on the way.
“Her next album is called ‘Orpheus,’ obviously,” Kravitz joked.
