Jeff Jarrett – “I really can’t say enough good things about Taylor Swift!”

While speaking with Bill Apter for Sportskeeda’s “WrestleBinge” podcast, Jeff Jarrett commented on his connection to Taylor Swift.

Jarrett has previously spoken about his family’s connection to Swift, whose daughters appeared in her music video for her 2010 hit “2010.”

Below you can see some highlights from the podcast:

About Taylor Swift’s success and his origins from his hometown: “The Swifties’ questions never stop. She’s done pretty well, don’t you think? No, first of all, I can’t say enough good things about Taylor because I’ve known her for 15 years, or God, longer. The story is that she was born in Pennsylvania, but her dad, mom and brother all moved to my hometown of Hendersonville, Tennessee, to really give Music City a shot. She was a young girl with a huge dream of being a singer-songwriter, and she came to town and started knocking on doors, and she knocked on enough doors.”

On Swift’s time with his family after the death of his first wife: “The first connection was, Bill, you know, my first wife died of breast cancer. She was going through a really rough time, this was 2006, and her first album, Tim McGraw, and her first single had just taken off, but it was just before Christmas, and at the time I had three little girls. Taylor wanted to come over for Christmas and just play her guitar. She just came over and wanted to play a couple of songs for my wife and the girls, and it was a weekend just before Christmas.

“(We had) family friends, Taylor went to the same school, she literally lived a mile from my house. She just started playing a couple of songs, and I’ll never forget that. There was a lot going on in my life at the time, personally, (with my) wife being very, very sick, and three kids, and then professionally, TNA, just a lot of responsibilities. So I can’t say I sat around and listened to the songs, but she ended up staying for three or four hours and playing, and when the thing was over there were probably 30 or 40 people in the house. It was really cool. That endeared her to the family in a lot of ways, and she stayed connected to the family even after Jill died. After Jill died, she would often call and say, ‘Hey, I want to bake cookies with the girls,’ or ‘I want to bring them over to my house.’ They say she was my babysitter. I can honestly say she was never on the payroll. (laughs)”

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