Why Zoë Kravitz and Her Mom, Lisa Bonet, Ended Up Wrecking Taylor Swift’s Bathroom

THE RUNDOWN:

• Zoë Kravitz appeared on an episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she shared a new story involving her close friend Taylor Swift.
• While staying at Swift’s home with her mom Lisa Bonet during the California wildfires earlier this year, they almost lost Bonet’s pet snake in the bathroom.
• “There was just this moment where I was like, ‘Either we destroy her bathroom or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house,’” Kravitz shared.

Zoë Kravitz is opening up about her L.A. fire evacuation story, and it involves her friend Taylor Swift.

On August 12, Kravitz appeared on an episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote her new film, Caught Stealing, co-starring Austin Butler. During their conversation, she mentioned that when the California wildfires occurred earlier this year, she needed a safe place to shelter, and Swift kindly opened up her home. Kravitz’s mom, Lisa Bonet, lives in Topanga Canyon, and because it was a dangerous place to be, her mom stayed at Swift’s house, too. And Bonet brought her pet snake, Orpheus.

“We ended up having to stay there for about two weeks,” Kravitz said. “And Taylor has this beautiful house. It’s from the ’30s, it’s something you want to preserve and take care of.” She also added that she tries to be a “good houseguest who leaves places better than I found them. I don’t want her to even know we were here.”

But when Kravitz was preparing to leave the house for work, she got a call from her mom. Bonet said that she was in a “little bit of a pickle.”

Kravitz went to find her in an upstairs bathroom, and she was crouched in the corner. “And I’m like, ‘What’s going on, dude?’ And she’s like, ‘So, I was washing my face, and I had Orpheus, and I just put her down for a second, closed the door, and she found this little hole in the corner,’” Kravitz explained.

The hole was next to a banquette built into the wall, and that’s where the snake was trapped. Bonet, by the way, was holding the snake’s tail. As they struggled to get Orpheus out, the snake crawled further into the wall.

Kravitz called her assistant, who was not helpful, and then called Swift’s house manager, who got a crowbar and tore apart the banquette.

“We’re ripping up the tile. We’re scratching the walls. We’re completely destroying Taylor’s bathroom. And there was just this moment where I was like, ‘Either we destroy her bathroom or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house.’”

She told the house manager, “Obviously, I’m gonna pay for everything to be fixed. Please just don’t say anything until it’s fixed.”

Eventually, Kravitz had to call Swift to confess. “I remember calling her, saying, ‘Hey, I wanted to talk to you about something.’ And she was like, ‘Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in my house and destroyed my bathroom?’”

Meyers then showed a photo of the whole bathroom scene with Kravitz, Bonet, and the house manager trying to rescue the snake.

Kravitz joked that Swift’s next album would be called Orpheus. But as we know, Swift recently announced her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl.

Watch Kravitz’s full Late Night appearance here: