Gracie Abrams shared an Instagram video of the two of them cooking in Taylor’s New York City home when the incident occurred.
“What do I do about this?” Taylor, 34, asked as she grabbed the fire extinguisher.
“I think we’re going to die,” she told Gracie as she searched for the device.
“We’re not going to die,” her friend replied.
Once she found it, she couldn’t get it to work and screamed, “B***h!”
Taylor eventually got the extinguisher to work and put out the fire.
“Our purses are ruined, and my shoes, and the whole room, I think,” Taylor joked as Gracie laughed.
Gracie, 24, said that it smelled really good before coughing.
Taylor’s stove was covered in smoke as she stood there in shock.
She panned the camera over to Taylor’s youngest cat, Benjamin Button, who walked into the kitchen looking confused.
“Writing this entire song from 2am to 6am was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. @taylorswift now we know how to use a fire extinguisher. I love you,” Gracie captioned the post.
Gracie and Taylor collaborated on a song called Us on Gracie’s sophomore album, The Secret of Us, which was released on June 21.
The song ironically has the line “I see her through the smoke.”
Although Gracie just posted the video on Friday, she talked about the fire with Billboard on Tuesday.
She shared that they heard a candle fall over earlier in the night, but thought it was one of her cats knocking something over.
After a night of dinner and drinks, the friends were shocked by the fire that went ablaze at 6 am.
“She was such a legend – I don’t know how at this hour or in our state she knew what to do,” Gracie told the outlet.
“We both had an insane cough from the fire extinguisher fumes for weeks.”
Gracie revealed that the fire happened six months ago, after they wrote their collaboration.
Before the fire, Taylor and Gracie had just finished listening to the other tracks on Gracie’s album and The Tortured Poet’s Department, before either were announced.
Gracie also revealed that they were “singing and dancing like theatre kids” to Taylor’s track, But Daddy, I Love Him.
She also laid on Taylor floor in disbelief after hearing The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.
After that, they started listening to instrumentals that their friend and collaborator, Aaron Dessner, had made.
“Something caught our ear at the same time very hard and fast,” she told Billboard.
“So we ran to the piano and started writing this song … I used to fantasize about that kind of a thing as a kid.”
Shortly after the fire, they headed to upstate New York to record the duet with Aaron, the founder of the band, The National.
Gracie opened for Taylor on her North American leg of her Eras Tour and will join her again for select dates this November and December.
Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift had quite the adventure in Taylor’s New York City home when a fire broke out while they were cooking together. Despite the chaos, the two friends managed to handle the situation with humor and grace.
Gracie shared a video on Instagram showing the moments leading up to the fire and the aftermath. Taylor frantically searching for the fire extinguisher, struggling to get it to work, and eventually putting out the fire. The room filled with smoke, their purses and shoes ruined, and even Taylor’s stove covered in soot.
Despite the mishap, Gracie recalled the experience as one of the most fun she’s ever had, staying up from 2am to 6am to write a song with Taylor. The collaboration resulted in a track called Us on Gracie’s album, The Secret of Us.
Following the fire incident, Gracie and Taylor headed to upstate New York to record the duet with Aaron Dessner, a collaborator on the project. Gracie also opened for Taylor on her Eras Tour and is set to join her for more dates later this year.
It’s clear that the fire incident was a memorable moment in the friendship between Gracie and Taylor, one that they can look back on and laugh about. Despite the coughs from the fire extinguisher fumes lingering for weeks, the two managed to create something beautiful out of the chaos.
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Source: Tampa Bay Times