Influencer ‘Mortified’ After Awkward Encounter with Taylor Swift originally appeared on Parade.
Influencer Serena Kerrigan is telling all about her awkward encounter with Taylor Swift.
Kerrigan, 31, opened up about the time Swift, 35, turned her down when she offered a free copy of one of her Let’s F***ing Date card games during the Monday, June 23 episode of the Casual Chaos podcast with Gia Giudice.
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“Recently, [I] went to a restaurant and I heard that Taylor Swift was there. And I was like, ‘I have to give her my card game,'” Kerrigan said. “[My boyfriend] Felix [Levine] was at home, and he put my card game in an Uber package. I left the restaurant. Millions of paparazzi, fans, were already waiting outside.”
Kerrigan said she saw Swift, her boyfriend Travis Kelce, friend Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds leaving the restaurant and waited for them to pass by her so that she could attempt to hand the pop star her card game.
“I literally was like, ‘Hi, I’m such a fan. And I created this card game. I think you would really love it.’ And she literally looked at it and she goes, ‘Oh, my God, thank you so much. But no, thank you. But thank you,'” Kerrigan said. “It was so sweet. I don’t think she could take it from me… There could have been poison.”
Swift is rumored to have “presidential level” security, with a team of bodyguards protecting her at all times. She has previously shared that she carries around QuikClot army grade bandage dressing in her purse for safety reasons as well.
Kerrigan added that she was “mortified” that Swift had turned her down, yet realized that it made for a good story.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I put her in this position where she had to say no.’ But then, I got over it because it’s such an iconic story for the plot. Who cares that she said no?” Kerrigan said. “And by the way, I kept the game that she rejected. One day I’m going to meet her, and I’m going to be like, ‘Funny story,’ and we’re going to be besties. It’s all good.”
All in all, Kerrigan doesn’t regret the encounter, noting, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Influencer ‘Mortified’ After Awkward Encounter with Taylor Swift first appeared on Parade on Jun 23, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
