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If you’re a Swiftie, you might be aware of a strange new controversy that’s emerged in recent weeks:

Concerns about Taylor Swift’s drinking habits have been circulating on social media.

That’s thanks in large part to a content creator named E.B. Johnson, who has pointed out that there seem to be discrepancies between Taylor’s comments about her drinking and her actual alcohol intake.

Johnson points out, for example, that Taylor claimed that she quit drinking during the Eras Tour, but photos and video from that time period seem to tell a different story.

Whatever the case, the situation has led to increased scrutiny of Taylor’s booze intake — and a funny story about beer and her future brother-in-law has resurfaced amid the controversy.

“I’ve got a very embarrassing story from last night about beer,” Jason Kelce said while appearing on the Barstool Sports “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast back in September.

“So I’m drinking beer, and I’m not really hammering ’em. I’m just kind of putting one back every 30 minutes or something,” Jason recalled.

“I’m just kind of enjoying beers last night, and I think it was third quarter [of a game he was watching], I find out that I’ve been drinking non-alcoholic beer the entire day,” he continued with a laugh.

“It was the most amount of shame I’ve ever felt in myself. I was just like, ‘What the f— is wrong with you, Jason!?’”

Asked who had been providing him with the non-alcoholic brews, Jason replied, “Taylor.”

“Because she said Travis had just been doing the same thing, and he’s ashamed. I’m like, ‘Time out, Travis. There’s non-alcoholic beer here!?’” he explained, adding:

“We had both been drinking these Budweiser Zeros, thinking they were just something like zero calorie Budweiser.”

Travis went on to joke that he was “so ashamed,” and had “just wasted three quarters of my life.”

There’s a lot to unpack here in the context of Taylor’s relationship with alcohol.

Did she give Jason the NA Buds as a joke? Is there non-alcoholic beer in the house because she and Travis Kelce are trying to cut back?

We don’t know, but you can bet that Swifties and haters alike will be dissecting the situation on Instagram and TikTok.

Interesting, that’s not the only amusing anecdote involving Taylor Swift, the Kelce brothers, and beer.

During an episode of his “New Heights” podcast, Travis and Taylor discussed an awkward moment that occurred while he was waiting to meet the royal family.

“He was like, ‘What do I do with my beer?’ ” Travis recalled (via People).

“I watched him have this moment with his beer where he was like, ‘But I want to take it, but I know that I probably should not take it,’ ” Swift chimed in. “I watched this happen, and it kind of was the most amazing…”

Something tells us Prince William wouldn’t have been scandalized by the sight of a grown man drinking a beer, but we understand the concern.

Jason Kelce’s Non-Alcoholic Beer Claims Resurface Amid Rumors About Taylor … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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The iFork aimed to elevate cutlery literally with a nub that keeps utensils from touching potentially dirty surfaces. But did this company miss the mark?

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She’s done it again!

Jennette McCurdy shocked the world with her debut book, I’m Glad My Mom Died.

The former child actress is now tapping into a different vein of rage in a new novel.

In Half His Age, she’s clearly bringing her own anger at having once dated a “f–king loser” man in his mid-30s when she was in her teens.

This is not her first book, but it is her first novel

Half His Age is out!

Jennette was never comfortable as a child actress because it was never her choice. She is much happier as an author — a successful one, at that.

Half His Age, she told ABC News, is a novel about an 18-year-old girl who is “ravenous.”

Jennette explained that the story is a way for her to “channel my own anger.”

Writing, she said, is “a way of channeling that anger in a healthy way.” The rage is, simply put, part of the healing process.

If you’re wondering why this author had so much rage to fuel her writing, she explained that.

Earlier this month, Jennette sat down on the Call Her Daddy podcast where she very directly discussed being “17 or 18” when a man in his mid-30s befriended her and then initiated a relationship with her.

In her interview, she freely acknowledged how her childhood of emotional and sexual abuse set the stage for a man twice her age to become her boyfriend.

Jennette recalled being a teen and “thinking that I was mature, thinking that I was so smart that this could happen.”

She continued: “I remember thinking like, ‘Oh yeah, there’s just something about me that’s a little different. Like, I’m special.’”

Red flags, red flags

“That’s what it felt like for me,” Jennette continued. “‘I’m special, I can connect with older people, younger people aren’t on my wavelength.’”

This wasn’t just in her own head. She said that the older man reinforced these messages.

“It was, you know, ‘You’re so mature. I can’t talk to anyone this way. I can’t believe how smart you are,’” Jennette described.

“Like, are you kidding me? I was such an idiot. I’m so embarrassed,” she expressed. She is, of course, not to blame.

In contrast, Jennette recalled the man’s male friends being friendly and cordial but feeling a distance from the women in those men’s lives. As an adult, she now sees that those women didn’t hate her — but were judging the man for dating a girl, well, half of his age.

As the interview emphasized, the power imbalance is inherent to age gap relationships to this degree. Even if they had not worked together, having twice someone’s life experience (the younger party being a teenager) is just going to put them on uneven footing.

“That it was ultimately my choice. That it was ultimately up to me. That ultimately, I was the one in charge,” she recalled believing.

“And I think if you feel really powerless, you’ll take that bait,” she explained.

Jennette described: “You know, you’ll take that, and you’ll go, ‘Okay, I really want that feeling of power even though my gut kind of knows this isn’t that, I’ll take what you’re saying, and I’ll try to run with it, and I’ll try to make it into some semblance of power.’”

She reasoned: “If you’re that desperate for it, you will take the bait. And I think I did.”

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Certain types of older men tend to zero in on teens who are least prepared to see them coming

It is important to emphasize two things.

The first is that Jennette is not accusing this man of anything illegal. He only joined the show when she was about 18, and had been living in an apartment for 2 months before he (drunkenly) showed up to express his feelings and then cheat on his girlfriend with her. (She did not know this)

Being a “loser,” as she now accurately calls him, is not a crime.

The second is that the years of emotional and sexual abuse from her mother that she described in I’m Glad My Mom Died absolutely set the stage for this.

Jennette spent her childhood feeling powerless, being powerless. Convincing herself that she was choosing this for herself — not to mention that she likely felt that he created a buffer of safety against her mother — made her feel in control.

Combined with her Mormon upbringing, her homeschooling, and more, she had even less preparation than an average 18-year-old might have had within that dynamic.

Jennette McCurdy ‘Half His Age’ Book Channels Rage After Dating a Man Twice … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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