NFL WAG Kelly Stafford admits Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce attention made her ‘jealous’
There’s no Bad Blood between Kelly Stafford and Taylor Swift.
The NFL WAG, 35, admitted to “The Morning After” podcast listeners Thursday that she let jealousy cloud her judgment on Swift, 34, after shading the singer’s romance with Travis Kelce in May.
Ahead of the 2024 NFL season, Stafford complained that she didn’t “want to see another four months of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce coverage” — which she now admits was rooted in envy.
“I feel like there is just this… cloud hanging over with this Taylor Swift thing. Now, I have never once said I didn’t like Taylor Swift — ever,” she told her co-host Hank Winchester in the latest episode.
Swifties came for the NFL WAG in May after she said she didn’t “want to see another four months of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce coverage.”Getty Images
The podcaster, who is married to Los Angeles Rams star Matthew Stafford, explained that she “got kind of tired” of the NFL’s unrelenting spotlight on the singer — which she acknowledges isn’t Swift’s fault.
“Can she do anything about that? No, she can’t,” Kelly conceded.
Although Kelly admitted “it was a good business decision for the NFL,” she felt the incessant coverage “was outshining the games.”
“I think that’s what bothered me,” she continued. “I was a little jealous of the fact that they were getting all this attention and all of a sudden the football game was the sideshow. So yeah, maybe I let jealousy get the best of me.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Kelly explained that she had to step back and process her emotions before figuring out the root of her issues.
“I was like, ‘Why was I feeling that way?’ And it really was, I had some jealousy issues of the fact that she all of a sudden became the main show in NFL football … or their relationship,” she explained.
“And I watch my husband work his ass off and I watch all these guys who play for the league work their asses off and all of a sudden they’re like the sideshow,” she added. “So that is where that kind of came from.”
Despite her jerk reaction to the situation, Kelly insisted she has always “loved” the “Fortnight” singer’s music and has been a big fan since the very beginning.
“I was a fan of hers when she was a country star because her and I are the same age so I grew up listening to her music,” she explained, noting that it had a “positive” influence on her life.
Kelly has passed down her love of Swift’s music to her four daughters — twins Sawyer and Chandler, 7, Hunter, 6 and Tyler, 4.
In fact, Kelly and Matthew took their daughters to see Swift in concert in New Orleans last weekend following the quarterback’s Thursday night match-up against the Minnesota Vikings.
The mother of four said she is “so thankful” for Swift for increasing female viewership and making her daughters “love football more knowing that she is adjacent to it.”
