This @TPAIN exchange w @taylorswift13 was the most awkward thing I’ve seen in the history of forever. #iHeartAwards2019 #eekface pic.twitter.com/kbdRHQZQYU
— Jim Chandler (@JimChandler1075) March 15, 2019
“Taylor, I never apologized to you. The first time we met—you’re so much taller than me, that I thought you were standing on something,” he began his monologue. “Without looking down, I tried to stand on whatever I thought you were standin’ on and bam! Headbutted you right in the boob. I’m so sorry. That was not my intention.”
As harmless as the anecdote might be on a level of reason, that’s not how Taylor Swift chose to view it, many of them deeming T-Pain’s conduct as unbecoming of a gentleman host, and his language far too expletive.