Zoe Kravitz has shared a surprising story about her time as an unexpected houseguest at Taylor Swift’s home during the Los Angeles wildfires. Speaking on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” the actor revealed that she, her mother, and her mother’s pet snake stayed with Swift for two weeks. What began as a safe refuge in the singer’s beautiful home turned chaotic when the snake escaped into the bathroom, leading to a frantic rescue effort and some unplanned damage to Swift’s property.
Zoe Kravitz reveals Taylor Swift launched a rescue mission to find the snake
Speaking to show host Seth Meyers, Zoe Kravitz explained that the incident happened on her final day. While she was packing to leave for work, her mother remained upstairs. She then received a phone call from her mom. It was unusual because they were in the same house. “Your voice is super high,” Kravitz remembered telling her mother. She then recalled how her mother admitted she was “in a little bit of a pickle.”
When the actor reached upstairs, she saw that her mother was inside the bathroom, crouched in a corner, clutching the snake’s tail. Orpheus, which is the name of the snake, had discovered “a little hole in the corner” beside a built-in banquette. The gap was barely visible, yet large enough for the snake to slip inside. “Snake tails are all muscle,” Kravitz noted. “They’re very strong.” It was getting increasingly difficult for her mom to hold him.
The situation escalated quickly. As the snake kept going deeper, Kravitz — all panicky — removed the drawers from the banquette. She wanted to check if they could locate him behind them. She said that the moment felt a lot like a scene from “Jurassic Park,” describing the sense of losing ground with each passing second. Her assistant Caroline arrived but couldn’t help. Swift’s house manager stepped in, grabbing a crowbar to dismantle part of the structure. “We were ripping up the tile, scratching the walls,” she recalled.
Faced with either leaving the snake in the house or damaging the bathroom, “The Batman” actor chose the latter. In the end, the bathroom was destroyed, but they managed to save Orpheus. Later, Kravitz, with a “very high voice,” nervously called Swift to confess and said, “Hey, I just wanted to talk to you about something.” Before she could even explain, Swift replied, “Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in our house and destroyed my bathroom?”
Orpheus is currently safe and sound. Meyers and Kravitz ended the story with a joke, suggesting Swift’s next album is titled “Orpheus, obviously,” and how the snake will get “like three songs.”
