If singing didn’t pan out, Taylor Swift could’ve made her name in babysitting. In a recent interview with WREG News Channel 3 , pro wrestler Jeff Jarrett revealed that the 34-year-old pop star used to watch his three daughters when she was a teenager — something that was extra meaningful as his wife Jill Gregory had just passed away. “She’s a friend of the family,” Jarrett told the organization.
“Very good to my family during a very dark period in our family. My wife got sick and she passed away, but Taylor was like a big sister and came over and took the girls, baking cookies and just kinda hung out at the house.” “I can’t say enough good things about Taylor,” he continued.
“Just a sweetheart. I still call her ‘our girl’ and now she’s hanging out in the NFL circles.” Gregory died in May 2007, just a few months after Swift released her self-titled debut album.
The WWE Hall of Famer also clarified that Swift “was never on the Jeff Jarrett payroll,” implying that the 14-time Grammy winner watched over the girls — Joslyn, Jaclyn and Jerlyn — out of the kindness of her heart. The “Anti-Hero” singer has been friends with the Jarrett family since she moved to Hendersonville, Tenn. as a teenager to pursue her music career.
In 2010, she cast Jaclyn to play a younger version of herself in the “Mine” music video, for which the wrestler and his kids all flew up to Maine to shoot with several other young family friends Swift casted to play .