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Taylor Swift based 'Ew!' character on 'traumatic personal childhood story'

Country-pop superstar Taylor Swift recently took part in a sketch with Jimmy Fallon in which she played a nerdy character called Natalie, but she has now revealed that the character was based on herself and how she was when she was a 10-year-old. 

During an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Swift confessed that she actually based her dorky 'Ew!' character on her own childhood and used her own experiences as inspiration to create the persona of Natalie:

"On the real... that's actually a story from my own childhood. I have this scar on my leg and it's a very prominent scar that I've had since I was about 10 [...] When I was 10 I would sit up in my attic and make castles out of popsicle sticks, and I used a super industrial strength hot glue gun ’cause I was really serious about it."

"So one day I was really aggressively creating a slide because I had these little toy bears that lived in it and needed a slide, and I was like glue glue glue and suddenly I was glueing off the table. You know, your first instinct is to just go, 'oh, I'll pull it off', and then you pull off 17 layers of skin with it. So that's how I came up with Natalie - a traumatic childhood story!"

 

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Watch the interview along with the funny sketch below: