Trending badgeTrendingPosted 41 minutes agoSubscribe to Taylor Swift NewsletterCaret DownMatty Healy's Mom Made Some Messy Comments About His "Tricky" Split From Taylor Swift, And This Is Gonna Make Some People Very, Very Mad"You're not allowed to say anything, and then she writes a whole album about it."by Ellen DurneyBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLinkHot Topic🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Taylor Swift In 2023, months before she began dating Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift was in a highly divisive - and relatively short-lived - relationship with Matty Healy. Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images, Joseph Okpako / Getty Images For some context, Taylor and Matty were known to run in the same social circles for many years; however, when they first stepped out as an apparent couple after her split from Joe Alwyn in May 2023, Taylor's fans were not on board with the new romance - largely due to some of Matty's past problematic behavior, which you can read about here. Robert Kamau / Getty Images So, when the pair broke up after just one month in June 2023, the Swifties were relieved that Matty was out of the picture - until just under a year later, when Taylor released The Tortured Poets Department. Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images As you may remember, the album, which dropped in April 2024, was packed full of lyrics seemingly chronicling the ups and downs of what was essentially revealed to be a 9-year situationship between Taylor and Matty, which ended with him allegedly ghosting her. Songs like "Peter," "Fresh Out the Slammer," "Down Bad," "But Daddy I Love Him," "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)," and "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" were just a few of the songs on TTPD speculated to be inspired by the 1975 frontman. Erika Goldring / Getty Images It was a wild time to be on the internet. You can read a full breakdown of Matty's apparent influence on TTPD here. BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicThink you're Blondie's biggest fan? Put your ~reputation~ to the test.
See our Taylor Swift Discussions Of course, song lyrics are always open for interpretation, so we don't know exactly what happened between these two. However, it's probably fair to speculate that the breakup was pretty messy - for Taylor, at least. Lionel Hahn / Getty Images And now, just a month after Matty was accused of shading Taylor during his headlining set at Glastonbury, his mom, UK TV icon, Denise Welch, has weighed in on the relationship and all the chatter surrounding it. Justin Palmer / Getty Images, Karwai Tang / Getty Images During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live this week, host Andy Cohen asked Denise for her "reaction" to Taylor writing "a whole album" about Matty, to which she bluntly replied: "Not being her mother-in-law is a role that I'm glad I lost." Watch What Happens Live / Bravo / Via youtu.be There were literal gasps from the studio audience, and even Andy looked shocked, which prompted Denise quickly to clarify that she doesn't have "anything against" Taylor; she just didn't love the way things played out with TTPD. "It was just, you know, it was tricky," she said. "Listen, you're not allowed to say anything, and then she writes a whole album about it. But Matty has taken it all in completely good grace. He's very happy with his amazing fiancé Gabriella, Gabbriette, who is gorgeous...
We've moved on." Watch What Happens Live / Bravo / Via youtu.be FYI, Denise did not get Gabbriette's name wrong. Her real name is Gabriella, which is presumably what her close friends and family call her. It's not taken long for Denise's quotes to be all over social media, and, as I'm sure you can imagine, the Swifties are not best pleased... I, for one, am certainly intrigued by her claim that they weren't "allowed" to discuss the breakup, but what do you think about it all? LMK in the comments. Watch What Happens Live / Bravo / Via youtu.be You can watch the clip of Denise on Watch What Happens Live here.