Taylor: ‘I Know It Was Him’
McFarland asked Swift for her reaction when she learned Mueller had been terminated. She replied, “I didn’t have a reaction to a strange person I didn’t know losing his job… that was a product of his decisions, not mine. I’m not going to let you or your client make me feel like this is my fault.” Swift added, “I don’t know anything about Mr. Mueller. I don’t know him… I think what he did was despicable, horrifying and shocking.”
McFarland asked Swift if she was sure it was Mueller who grabbed her, to which she replied, “It happened to me. He had a handful of my ass. I know it was him. I didn’t need a picture.” McFarland continued to press, to which Swift replied, “You can ask me a million questions about it and I’m never going to say something different. I never have said anything different.”
KYGO VP/GM Bob Call testified that he made the decision to fire Mueller on June 4, 2013. “He, in our opinion, violated… our contract and created an embarrassing situation for our company, our clients… by virtue of touching Taylor’s rear end,” Call said, noting that he realized the alleged touching could have happened “incidentally or accidentally.” Call said one of the reasons for Mueller’s firing was that now infamous photograph, “with his hand in a place where people don’t put their hands during a meet-and-greet picture.” Call added, “It made no sense to me that Taylor would make such a claim.”