There are Swifties, after which there are Swifties. Comic and roast queen Nikki Glaser proudly belongs to the latter group.
A die-hard Taylor Swift fan, Glaser estimates she spent “near $100,000” attending 22 of Swift’s Eras Tour exhibits over the previous two years.
“I wish to be clear that we’re together with journey bills, accommodations, flying and accommodating everybody I invited, plus tickets and merch,” Glaser informed Folks.
The host of the 2025 Golden Globes calls the quantity she spent “fully price it,” including, “I might’ve paid much more.”
Reflecting on the tour’s record-breaking $2,077,618,725 in whole ticket gross sales, as reported by The New York Instances, Glaser quips, “I like that it was right down to the greenback, and I may see my very own cash in that quantity and be like, ‘Yeah, there it’s.’”
“I justify that price as a result of I haven’t got children, and it is one thing that I consciously determined to not do, and it was one thing that I struggled with,” she mentioned.
“It wasn’t the simplest choice. There was part of me that was like, ‘I would love children,’ but it surely simply does not slot in my life. And so to ensure that me to make myself really feel higher concerning the choice, I did lookup how a lot it price to boost a child. And so as soon as I noticed that quantity, I believed, ‘It is no drawback for me to spend this on Taylor Swift,'” Glaser added.
As for critics of her splurging, Glaser dismisses the negativity: “Individuals who provide you with crap about it are simply jealous. Nobody ever shames anybody for having children and says, ‘Oh, what a waste of cash. Oh, you are flaunting your wealth.’ However for some cause, after I go to 22 Taylor Swift exhibits, it is like, ‘You are so privileged. How dare you spend that cash.’”
“I want the world had been extra honest. I want it was a lottery. I actually do,” Glaser concluded.
This isn’t the primary time Glaser has publicly spoken about her connection to Swift. In 2020, she issued an Instagram apology for previous feedback concerning the singer, which Swift had highlighted in her documentary Miss Americana. Swift graciously accepted, writing, “I recognize this a lot.”
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