Taylor Swift had an on-off relationship with ex Harry Styles, which inspired much of 1989, but more than 10 years later, the two musicians are in a good place via Elle.
Us Weekly reported a source told that Swift, who’s now engaged to Travis Kelce, “doesn’t have an issue” with Styles dating her good friend Zoë Kravitz.
“Their relationship was so long ago,” the insider said. “Harry has moved on, and so has Taylor. They’re friendly when they see each other, which isn’t often but does happen occasionally. It’s all in the past now.”
Styles and Swift were last pictured talking at the 2023 Grammys: He began dating Kravitz in August.
“They are very similar and are free-spirited people, so they hit it off and have a lot of chemistry,” a source told Us Weekly on August 26.
Styles and Swift were together publicly from late 2012 to early 2013. Swift authorized a source to speak to Vanity Fair in March 2013 about their dynamic. The insider noted that Styles “chased” her for a year and “wore her down.”
“He was all, like, ‘You’re amazing—I want to be with you. I want to do this,’” the source said. But after he texted Swift to warn her about a photo of him kissing a friend goodbye, the relationship deteriorated. The source explained of the pic, “[They were] making out like with their hands all up in each other’s hair.”
While Swift ended it, Styles continued to pursue her, and they eventually reconciled. However, she reportedly had trouble trusting him: “The whole time she says she feels like he’s looking at every girl,” the source said.
Ultimately, things ended for good, and Swift spoke in March 2015 about how her 1989 song “Out of the Woods” captured her feelings during this period.
“The number one feeling I felt in the whole relationship was anxiety,” she said, though she didn’t name Styles. “Because it felt very fragile, it felt very tentative. And it always felt like, ‘Okay, what’s the next road block? What’s the next thing that’s gonna deter this? How long do we have before this turns into just an awful mess and we break up?’”
She added, “I think a lot of relationships can be very solid, and that’s kind of what you hope for, for it to be solid and healthy, but that’s not always what you get. And it doesn’t mean that it’s not special and extraordinary just to have a relationship that’s fragile and somehow meaningful in that fragility.”
