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 reveals over the previous two years.
“I wish to be clear that we’re together with journey bills, lodges, flying and accommodating everybody I invited, plus tickets and merch,” Glaser informed Individuals.
The host of the 2025 Golden Globes calls the quantity she spent “fully price it,” including, “I’d’ve paid much more.”
Reflecting on the tour’s record-breaking $2,077,618,725 in complete ticket gross sales, as reported by The New York Occasions, Glaser quips, “I like that it was all the way 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 resolution. There was part of me that was like, ‘I would love children,’ nevertheless it simply would not slot in my life. And so to ensure that me to make myself really feel higher in regards to the resolution, I did lookup how a lot it price to lift a child. And so as soon as I noticed that quantity, I assumed, ‘It is no downside 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 purpose, once I go to 22 Taylor Swift reveals, it is like, ‘You are so privileged. How dare you spend that cash.’”
“I want the world have been extra truthful. 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 in regards to the singer, which Swift had highlighted in her documentary Miss Americana. Swift graciously accepted, writing, “I admire this a lot.”
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