Nikki Glaser Says Hearing Herself in Taylor Swift’s <i>Miss Americana</i> Was ‘One of the Worst Feelings Ever’

In the years since her appearance in Taylor Swift’s 2020 documentary Miss Americana, Nikki Glaser has continued to reflect on the remarks against Swift she made in the film. In an August 2025 interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger, Glaser spoke about realizing her comments had hurt Swift.

“That was one of the worst feelings ever, was hearing my voice being catty about her because I just knew it was my voice,” Glaser said. “It was all based on jealousy, and it was also an example of me forgetting that she’s a person.”

She continued, “Taylor Swift was ruined for me after my voice was used…because I said, ‘This means she has seen this. I’ve probably actually hurt her feelings.’ And it felt horrible.”

Glaser shared that she didn’t message Swift directly to say she’s sorry: “At first I reached out to my agents, and I said, ‘I need to write her an apology. Could you get this to her?’ And then they said, ‘We don’t want to poke this.’”

“I mean, I’m a Swiftie, and I wanted to dox myself for what I said to Taylor Swift,” Glaser admitted. “So I said the only way I’m going to reach her is if I post something [on Instagram]. And I know that she’s active on these sites, so she’ll maybe see it. And she did. And then like seven hours later, I was on a date, and I looked at my phone…and I saw Taylor had commented on the Instagram post and forgiven me. And I only read it once; I’ll never read it again.”

Glaser added, “I didn’t DM her, I want to respect her time. I don’t even want to meet her, I don’t want to be friends with her because I don’t want to take any energy from her that she could put into writing songs that could change my life.”

Swift’s documentary, Miss Americana, was released on Netflix on Jan. 31, 2020. Shortly after it came out, Glaser posted a photo to Instagram of her wearing a tour T-shirt from the Red era and wrote a lengthy apology for her years-old comments about Swift.

In Miss Americana’s montage of various public figures saying some not-so-great things about Swift, a clip of Glaser was shown where she called Swift “too skinny” and commented on her “model friends.”

“I love @taylorswift,” Glaser wrote after the premiere of the film. “Unfortunately, I am featured in her new documentary as part of a montage of asshats saying mean things about her, which is used to explain why she felt the need to escape from the spotlight for a year. It’s insanely ironic because anyone who knows me knows I’m obnoxiously obsessed with her and her music. The sound bite was from an interview I did 5 years ago and I say in SUCH a shitty tone, ‘She’s too skinny; it bothers me…all of her model friends, and it’s just like, cmon!’ This quote should be used as an example of ‘projection’ in PSYCH101 textbooks. If you’re familiar with my ‘work’ at all, you know I talk openly about battling some kind of eating disorder for the past 17 years…I was probably ‘feeling fat’ that day and was jealous…And I was only bothered by her model friends because I’d like to be her friend, and I’m not a model.”

The apology was noticed by Swift and well received. Swift commented on Glaser’s post writing, “Wow. I appreciate this so much. One of the major themes of the doc is that we have the ability to change our opinions over time, to grow, to learn about ourselves. I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve struggled with some of the same things I’ve struggled with. Sending a massive hug.”