Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss’ Fallout Before Accidental NY...

Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss appeared to turn back the clock on Sunday, laughing together in a suite at Arrowhead Stadium as they supported Swift’s husband, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce.

Swift’s mother, Andrea, was seated beside them, adding to the warm family atmosphere. Whatever tension once existed between the former best friends appeared nowhere in sight.

Their reunion marks a striking turn in a friendship that had long seemed to have ended beyond repair.

One insider told Our News Outlet that Kloss was once “even closer” to Swift than Blake Lively, another former friend whose relationship with the singer reportedly deteriorated after Swift became entangled in Lively’s legal dispute with actor and director Justin Baldoni.

“There wasn’t anything they didn’t confide in each other about,” the source said of Swift and Kloss. “Then, suddenly, their friendship came crashing down.”

So what caused the split?

Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift reunited at Swift’s husband Travis Kelce’s game on Sunday

An insider said the former friends “didn’t have any communication for years” (pictured in 2014)

According to sources, the answer points to Scooter Braun. The claim appears to support years of speculation that Kloss’s professional relationship with the music executive, who was also Swift’s longtime adversary, helped trigger the breakdown.

“The rift between Taylor and Karlie was never simply a case of two friends falling out,” one insider said. “Much of the tension surrounding their relationship came down to Scooter Braun.”

Kloss, 34, had worked with Braun for years when he purchased Swift’s former label, Big Machine, in June 2019 for $300 million. The deal included the master recordings of Swift’s first six albums.

Swift, 36, viewed the sale as a deeply personal betrayal, leaving Kloss caught between her friend and her manager.

“Karlie was placed in an incredibly uncomfortable position as she tried to remain close to Taylor while being managed by Scooter, someone Taylor had longstanding issues with,” the source said.

“Taylor was understandably hurt by Karlie’s association with Scooter, and it added another complication to an already difficult situation. Sadly, that connection began to overshadow what had been a very genuine friendship.”

The insider also claimed that some members of Swift’s famous girl squad felt she was being too unforgiving. “A couple of Tay’s friends told her to let it go,” the source said.

But the cookie-baking best friends soon appeared to go their separate ways.

Seven years later, however, Swift and Kloss are together again—and Kloss seems to have found her way back into the singer’s inner circle.

Kloss and her businessman husband, Joshua Kushner, attended Swift and Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden in July. They joined an A-list guest list that included Lena Dunham, Gigi Hadid and the Haim sisters.

When Swift walked down the aisle, Kloss was reportedly nearby with tissues in hand.

“Karlie was crying for Tay at her wedding. She was genuinely so happy for her,” the insider said.

The reconciliation has stunned Swifties, particularly because the singer is not known for reopening doors once she has closed them.

“When Tay cuts someone out of her life, it’s almost always permanent. She isn’t usually someone who gives second chances.”

For years, it appeared Kloss would be no exception. So what finally brought them back together?

“The division was because Karlie was with Scooter [Braun],” said a second source (Scooter Braun pictured in 2020)

The reunion has surprised Swift watchers, especially because the singer is said to rarely offer second chances (Swift and Kloss pictured in 2014)

An insider said Kloss was once “even closer” to Swift than Blake Lively, the former friend reportedly distanced from the singer after Swift became involved in Lively’s legal dispute with Justin Baldoni (pictured: Gigi Hadid, Blake Lively, Swift and Keleigh Teller in 2023) (Source: Keleigh Teller/Instagram)

The second source said Braun’s departure from Kloss’s professional life was essential to the friendship’s revival.

“Once she was no longer managed by him, there was room for the friendship to begin again,” the source said. “Time has helped heal the wounds. Scooter is no longer the connection tying their lives together, so there is no reason to keep holding on to the baggage from that period.”

Braun, 45, has since stepped away from artist management. In June 2024, he announced that he was “a manager no more.”

“Any awkwardness or hurt feelings from that time are now in the past,” the source added. “They have both moved forward and their lives have changed. The friendship needed some distance, but they now understand how much they mean to each other.”

The first insider said the reconciliation may have begun even earlier, following an unexpected encounter in New York.

“They ran into each other in New York about four years ago. It was probably awkward at first, but they have so much history that they ended up hugging.”

Their story began more than a decade ago, after Swift declared in a 2012 Vogue interview: “I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!”

The pair were not seen together publicly until the following year, when they crossed paths at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. From there, their friendship quickly grew.

In 2014, Kloss chronicled a road trip with Swift through a series of stylized Instagram posts, while the two were frequently photographed together around New York City. They later appeared together on the cover of Vogue in 2015.

That same year, Kloss joined Swift’s star-studded “Bad Blood” music video and performed alongside the singer’s celebrity friends during the 1989 tour.

Kloss and Swift enjoyed a close friendship for years before speculation about a falling-out began

Kloss and her husband Joshua Kushner headed to Swift’s wedding

Then came Kanye West’s “Famous,” released in February 2016, featuring the controversial lyric: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that b***h famous.”

Swift said she had never approved the lyric. Months later, Kim Kardashian, who was married to West at the time, released footage of a phone call between the rapper and Swift, arguing that it showed the singer had been informed. The dispute prompted a flood of snake emojis and left Swift saying she felt “lower than ever.”

When Kloss was asked about Kardashian by The Times just weeks later, she appeared visibly uncomfortable.

“Ha… you know… I honestly… I… I…” Kloss said, before adding: “I think she’s been a lovely person to me in the past.”

The carefully worded response was interpreted by many fans as the moment that damaged her relationship with Swift.

Kloss later pushed back against that interpretation on Twitter. “I will not allow the media to misconstrue my words,” she wrote. “Taylor has always had my back and I will always have hers. I will never be the girl that you can use to pit women against each other.”

Although the first insider said the comment “bugged” Swift, the second source maintained that Kardashian was not responsible for the eventual breakdown.

Kloss also celebrated Swift’s birthday that year, calling her a “friend, sister and partner in crime.”

Some fans believed Kim Kardashian came between Swift and Kloss, but a second insider strongly rejected that theory (Swift, West and Kardashian pictured in 2015)

“The rift between Taylor and Karlie was never quite as simple as two friends having a falling-out,” one insider said. “A lot of the tension came down to Scooter Braun.”

Politics may have added another source of tension, as Kloss’s husband Joshua Kushner is the brother of Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump. Donald Trump has previously said he “hates” Swift (Ivanka Trump, Dasha Zhukova and Kloss pictured in 2016)

By 2017, reports began suggesting that Swift and Kloss had definitively ended their friendship. Sources claimed Swift had become wary of Kloss’s intentions and her close association with Braun.

The dispute over Swift’s master recordings eventually led the singer to re-record her early albums, before regaining ownership of the original recordings in 2025.

Kloss, meanwhile, continued to maintain ties with Braun.

Braun attended her second wedding celebration with Kushner in June 2019, an event Swift did not attend. Shortly after Swift publicly criticized Braun, he shared vacation photos with the couple captioned “week of laughter.”

Other reports raised politics as another possible factor. Kushner’s brother Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, while Donald Trump has previously declared his dislike for the Democrat-leaning pop star.

Although Kloss occasionally voiced support for Swift, fans increasingly assumed the friendship was over. Some Swifties even interpreted a line from Swift’s 2020 song “It’s Time to Go”—about “the words of a sister” returning “back in whispers”—as a reference to Kloss.

When Kloss attended the Eras Tour in Los Angeles in August 2023, she was notably not seen in the VIP tent, further fueling speculation about their status.

Now, it seems, that chance meeting and hug in New York may have quietly changed everything.

On Sunday, Kloss brought her five-year-old son, Levi, to the stadium suite, where she sat with Swift and the singer’s parents, Andrea and Scott.

“They are back to where they were in the old days,” the first insider said. “They are as close as ever.”

The second source agreed: “Scooter remains the enemy here—he and Taylor will never see eye to eye. But Karlie and Taylor can laugh about it now. They are ride or die.”

The phrase is especially fitting, since Kloss used those same words in birthday tributes to Swift during the height of their friendship.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Swift, Kloss and Braun for comment.