Lorde Apologizes for Comparing Her Friendship With Taylor Swift to an Autoimmune Disease

I don’t know how I missed it, but when a reporter for The Guardian asked Lorde to describe what it’s like to have friends as famous as Taylor Swift in an interview published last week, she responded:

It’s like having a friend with very specific allergies. There are certain places you can’t go together. Certain things you can’t do. There are these different sets of considerations within the friendship. It’s like having a friend with an autoimmune disease.

While Lorde was talking about famous friends in a broad sense (she does, in fact, have plenty of them), the admittedly insensitive quote was chopped and screwed into something more headline-worthy than what it actually was. Some examples:

When confronted Monday on Twitter by an editor who referred to the singer’s comments as “ignorant,” Lorde finally addressed the controversy smartly and succinctly. She even ended with a peace offering.

Amazing how easy it is to nip a controversy in the bud by simply apologizing and walking away!