January’s California wildfires displaced a lot of people.
Among them: celebrities.
Under the threat of the blazes, some celebrities left their homes to temporarily take refuge in other celebrities’ homes.
One of these stars was Zoë Kravitz.
The actor and director, who is nominated for an Emmy for her standout guest appearances in the Apple TV+ series “The Studio,” told Seth Meyers about her stay with a certain pop singer on “Late Night” Tuesday.
“I’m gonna name-drop,” Kravitz said before dropping the name:
Kravitz, who had to evacuate her home, stayed at her friend Swift’s house for about two weeks during the fires.
She brought her mother, Emmy-nominated “Cosby Show” actor Lisa Bonet (Denise Huxtable), who left her own Topanga Canyon home.
And Bonet brought Orpheus, her pet snake.
“It’s a beautiful house,” Kravitz said of Swift’s 1930s-era home. “Something you wanna preserve and take care of.”
At the end of Kravitz’s stay — she had to leave for work, and her mother was going to stay behind — she got a call from Bonet … inside the same house.
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Kravitz immediately figured something was up because her mother greeted her with a “super” high-pitched voice.
“Um, I’m in a little bit of a pickle,” Bonet told Kravitz. “Can you come upstairs?”
Kravitz, 36, reported to the scene.
The actor found her mother crouched in the corner of the bathroom.
Apparently, Bonet, 57, had Orpheus out while she was washing her face.
When she went to close the door, the snake made a beeline for a hole in the corner. She was able to get a hold of her pet’s tail, but needed help.
The hole was next to a banquette that was built into the wall. A panicked Kravitz tried to see if the hole led to some drawers in the furniture, but no dice.
Kravitz’s assistant also reported to the bathroom, but had no solutions.
Then the house manager showed up.
They had two options.
One: Let Orpheus go into the hole and inform Swift that a snake is now loose in her house, somewhere in the walls, or … wherever.
Two: dismantle part of the bathroom trying to get the snake out.
Kravitz and Bonet went with the second option.
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The house manager tore the banquette apart with a crowbar. The whole endeavor resulted in tile being ripped up and scratches on the walls.
“Completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom,” Kravitz told Meyers.
Still, she’s glad they didn’t let the snake go, because then the house “would be ruined forever,” she said.
Kravitz assisted her mom in securing the snake’s tail so they could recover the pet from the hole.
She told the house manager she would pay for all repairs, and asked that he not tell Swift until they were complete.
Later, Kravitz called the singer in her own “high voice” to clue her in.
But Swift, 35, was already up to speed.
“Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in my house and destroyed my bathroom?”
Meyers’ response to the tale:
“I feel like that snake’s gonna get three songs on the next album.”
Kravitz concurred.
“Her next album is called ‘Orpheus,’ obviously.”
You can watch Kravitz tell the full story in the clip below.
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