Taylor Swift Gets Real About Her Cringe-Worthy First Call with Travis Kelce — “I Couldn’t Stop Interrupting Him!”

“It Wasn’t Love at First Call!” Taylor Swift Shares the Hilariously Awkward Story of Her First Conversation with Travis Kelce.

They might be America’s favorite power couple now, but according to Taylor Swift, her first phone call with Travis Kelce was far from perfect.

In a recent interview that has fans crying with laughter, the Grammy-winning superstar opened up about how her very first conversation with the NFL star went hilariously wrong — complete with nervous rambling, mistimed jokes, and more interruptions than a dropped FaceTime call.

“It wasn’t love at first call,” Swift joked, smiling shyly as she recalled the moment. “Honestly, I was so nervous that I kept interrupting him every time he tried to talk. It was a total disaster — but kind of adorable, looking back.”

And as it turns out, even superstars have their awkward moments when talking to a crush for the first time.

The First Ring That Changed Everything

According to Swift, the now-famous phone call happened long before the couple’s first public appearance together — and shortly after Travis made headlines for trying (and failing) to give her a friendship bracelet with his number during one of her Eras Tour concerts.

“I knew who he was, obviously,” Taylor said with a laugh. “Everyone was talking about the ‘friendship bracelet guy.’ So when we actually got on the phone, I was already nervous — like, What if he’s too confident? What if I say something weird?”

She admits she had butterflies in her stomach before the call even began. “My friends were hyping me up like it was a job interview,” she continued. “I’m sitting there staring at my phone, heart racing, and when it finally rings, I panic and just blurt out, ‘Hi! I swear I’m not weird!’ before he even said hello.”

Kelce’s Attempt at a Joke — That Flopped

Travis Kelce, for his part, apparently tried to ease the tension with one of his trademark dad jokes — but it didn’t quite land.

“He goes, ‘So… do I call you Miss Swift or Your Majesty of Pop?’” Taylor recounted, laughing so hard she had to pause. “And I just froze. I didn’t know whether to laugh or say thank you. So I think I said both at once. It came out as this awkward half-giggle, half-snort. It was bad.”

According to Taylor, the next few minutes of the call were a comedy of errors. “Every time he started to say something, I’d interrupt him. Not because I was being rude — I just couldn’t stop talking. My brain was like, Fill the silence, fill the silence!”

At one point, she said, Kelce had to gently interrupt back, telling her, “You know you can let me finish a sentence, right?”

“And I was mortified,” she said, covering her face. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s never going to call me again.’”

Swifties Lose It Over the Story

The moment Swift shared this story, the internet — naturally — exploded. Within hours, social media was flooded with fan reactions, memes, and edited clips of their “first call reenactment.”

“Even Taylor Swift gets flustered around her crush — there’s hope for all of us!” one fan posted on X (formerly Twitter).
“It’s giving rom-com energy,” wrote another. “She’s basically living in her own Taylor Swift song right now.”

TikTok users quickly turned the story into a trending soundbite, pairing Swift’s quote — “It wasn’t love at first call!” — with footage of their favorite awkward movie love scenes.

One fan summed it up perfectly:

“Their whole relationship feels like watching a romantic comedy in real life — except it’s unscripted, and they actually mean it.”

From Awkward to Adorable

Despite the awkward start, Taylor said that the first call ended on a surprisingly sweet note.

“At some point, I just stopped overthinking and said, ‘Okay, your turn — tell me something about yourself,’” she said. “And that’s when I realized he’s just… kind. Down-to-earth. He made me laugh — like, really laugh. The kind of laugh that makes you forget how nervous you are.”

The call reportedly lasted nearly an hour, with both of them finding common ground over music, family, and what Taylor described as “an unexpected mutual love for breakfast food.”

“He told me his favorite meal of the day is breakfast, and I said, ‘Mine too — but only if someone else makes it,’” she recalled with a grin. “He said, ‘Deal. I make pancakes.’ And that was that.”

It wasn’t love at first call, she insists — but it was the start of something real.

Their Relationship, One Year Later

Fast forward to now, and the world knows how that “awkward first call” turned out. Taylor and Travis have since become one of the most talked-about couples in pop culture — effortlessly blending two of America’s biggest passions: music and football.

From Eras Tour appearances to Kansas City Chiefs games, the couple’s every move draws headlines, yet both have worked hard to keep the foundation of their relationship private and grounded.

“What people see is fun and glamorous,” Taylor said. “But the best parts are the quiet ones — the laughter at home, the dinners after long days, the times we just get to be normal.”

Kelce has echoed similar sentiments in interviews, describing Taylor as “the real deal” and “the funniest person I’ve ever met.”

“She’s got this humor that catches you off guard,” he told ESPN earlier this year. “People see the superstar, but she’s also this incredibly genuine, dorky, witty woman. That first call? Yeah, she was nervous — but so was I.”

Why Fans Love Their “Imperfect” Story

What makes Taylor and Travis’s story so endearing isn’t perfection — it’s authenticity. Their romance feels refreshingly human in a world of polished celebrity narratives.

“They’re awkward. They mess up. They laugh about it. It’s real,” said pop culture columnist Marissa Lang. “That’s why people can’t get enough of them. It’s like watching your best friend fall in love — except your best friend is Taylor Swift.”

Swifties have embraced the “first call” anecdote as yet another chapter in Taylor’s ongoing love story — one that could easily inspire its own hit song someday. In fact, fans are already jokingly predicting that her next album will include a track titled ‘Love at First Call (Wasn’t).’

“If she writes a song about accidentally interrupting Travis Kelce 17 times,” one user commented on Instagram, “it’ll go straight to No. 1.”

“It Wasn’t Perfect — and That’s Perfect”

For Swift, the hilariously awkward call that started it all now feels like a treasured memory.

“Looking back, it’s kind of perfect that it went so wrong,” she said. “Because that’s who we are — we don’t try too hard. We just show up, laugh, and figure it out together.”

As fans continue to swoon over their every glance and giggle, the couple’s first-call story reminds everyone of something simple but beautiful: even the world’s biggest superstar can stumble through love — and still get it right in the end.

“It wasn’t love at first call,” Taylor said one last time, smiling. “But it sure turned into love after.”