13 l The Taylor Swift Via Coma Episode

I met Taylor Swift because I was hit by a car. This is that story. And this story reflects the entire moral/thesis of this podcast: Using what you have to work with the Universe, rather than focussing on what you don't have. I was able to take said coma and said 16 surgeries and said two month hospital & rehab stay and said brain injury and said Uh Oh experience and use it as a way to canoodle with the most famous woman in the world. 

But how?! How does one?! And what exactly do you mean you vague bitch?!

I have the audacity to make you only able to find out by unpacking the whole story with me aka listening to me speak for 46 minutes and 31 seconds.

Win most, lose some

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:20 Spiritual Moment of the Week
• 4:08 Content Recomendation
• 6:47 The Pregame
• 13:17 My Master Plan
• 17:20 The Inciting Incident
• 22:58 My PTSD from One Direction
• 31:43 The Movie Premiere Itself
• 38:16 Taylor Swift Meets Me
• 42:37 Spirutal Lesson & Moral of the Story

Transcript

As she's walking away, post -hug, I'm like, "This was the best day of my life." And she turns around and goes, she like brushes off the person that she's supposed to be taking a selfie with, sorry, you're not as cool as me, but she like turns around and she goes, "No, the best day of your life was when you woke up." I don't remember that day, so I wouldn't say it was the best day of my life, And then she goes, "No, and I loved that. Amazing."

- Almost dying taught me how to live. Being struck by a car left me in a three and a half week coma with 15 broken bones and 16 surgeries to complete, including brain surgery. However, I woke up from that coma in an even greater place than I ever saw for myself. How? The universe will guide you out of the darkness and into the light if you allow it. Often spirituality comes off as too high -brow. I'm not about that. Welcome to the podcast that talks and teaches about it through the lens of humor. Together, we'll harness positive energy and use it to work with the Universe, all while giggling the entire time. Welcome to Gabriella Rebranded,

"Win most, lose some."

My God, I've told this story so many times. Yeah, yeah, it's cool. People want to hear it. Taylor Swift met me because I was hit by a car. I didn't meet Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift met me because I was hit by a car. It's very cool. People want to hear it. I give the fans what they want. I'm going to give you guys that story but first let's you know check the things off the to -do list of spiritual moment of the week and content rack um so my spiritual moment of the week and this is like a really small one but it was so like the universe is I was going to see a movie with my friends and we were going to the Hollywood Vista theater it's owned by Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino and it's a theater that's like, you know, the traditional film, you watch it on 70 millimeters and it's like a 400 person capacity theater. And my friends had gotten tickets before but I was invited a little later because bitches fucking hate me. No, I'm kidding. But when I looked, it was sold out but it was a 400 person capacity. So I was like, all right, let me show up and see if something happens. Like I was sure that one person of the 400 wouldn't show up and I could get into the theater. But we were going and I was really chill about the whole thing, which normally that's something that I think would make me anxious because I like to have a plan. But I thought it was really important that I was there because one of friends that I was with is just going through some life shit. So I thought it was important that I was there. Even though, it's a 400 person theater. It's not that easy. And I'm walking and they're like, Yeah, you can try at the box office, but I don't think there's any left. And I'm like, Okay, it just so happens that the two people behind me are like, we have an extra ticket. And I was like, Oh, my God, that is the universe that the two people behind me as I'm entering have an extra ticket. And then in that situation, I got

to see the movie for free." So anyway, that was the universe supporting me because you know, I think it was supporting me because I was so chill about the whole thing and I like had my book, I found a coffee shop that was nearby and I was just like, if they let me in, they let me in, which normally I think I'd be very anxious. So yes, roll with it, let life happen. The universe is always supporting you. It's always working out for you. 

and then my content rec. So this isn't, it's not supporting spiritual growth in such an obvious way. So medical TV shows and movies, they get it fucking wrong. And my father, who's a doctor absolutely hates medical TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, 'cause they just get it so wrong. But my ER doctor, Dr. Carl Berdahl, I met him at my launch. He came to my launch event, which was incredible because he literally saved my life. He literally saved my life. He got me from a level three coma on the Glasgow scale, which is the lowest you can be and still be alive up to 11 within 20, 30 minutes. Like he is the reason I'm alive. My mom started sobbing when I introduced him to her because we never met him. I mean the ER the way it works is like you get in they do the shit on you and then they never see you again but I reached out to him and invited him to my launch because my dad as a doctor wanted to see my ER report and was like this man saved your life. So I invited him to my launch on a whim and he actually came which was incredible and it was the first time I was meeting him my family was meeting him So when I introduced him to my mom, she instantly burst into tears. And my dad like instantly hugged him and my dad isn't a hugger. It was a really beautiful moment. But anyway, he was telling us that the show, the pit on HBO Max, he actually likes and it's it's about the E .R. And he said it's an actually accurate reflection of being in the E .R. So I watched it. So every episode is an hour. So it's one day of ER life and every episode it's like 9 a .m. to 10 a .m. 10 a .m. to 11 a .m. 11 a .m. to 12 p .m. And it's just one day of the ER. And I think it's just really interesting. It was like some parts were a little hard for me to watch. You guys will get why when you watch it. But I think it's really interesting to see how that works and I think it's really that there are people who they just deal with seeing death multiple times a day and the mental space you need to be in and I think it's I think you'll have more empathy for doctors if you watch that show but I also think in some cases doctors need to have more empathy for patients I there's there's a lot that needs to be talked about it needs to be adjusted but um watch this show i just watch the show it gives you a an interesting look at death that's it

anyway now that we're done talking death let's talk taylor swift taylor swift is a fan of the gabriella in the gabriella rebranded podcast she's um happy i'm here and luckily hashtag manifesting um After this day happened, I recorded a voice memo called "Meeting Taylor Swift, My 20 -Minute Podcast." That's literally what I named it. See, see, look at it, October 12th, 2023. See, October 12th, 2023. And I recorded this the day it happened, so I would remember all the details. And actually the day this all happened was October 11th, but I recorded this after midnight, so it says October 12th. And then I restructured this into a story that was for a storytelling workshop that was hosted by the Moth via Love Your Brain that I was invited to participate in. But that story, while it was beautiful, it could only be max five minutes because, you know, we were all staring stories and this is my own damn podcast. So I get to give you guys more than five minutes and give you guys a little bit more of a glimpse and share a little bit more. So yes, it all happened on October 11th, less than a week before the second anniversary of my accident. And obviously the universe played a role, nothing's a coincidence. And what I really overarchingly want to get across to you with this story is that this story is the core message of this podcast. Using what you have to work with the universe rather than focusing on what you don't. This story really shows that. So please take that. Out of the worst thing in my life came the best thing in my life thus far. I've loved Taylor Swift forever, including when it wasn't cool to love Taylor Swift. Now it's cool, but it used to not be cool. I've been to every tour she has ever had. Her first headlining tour Fearless was my first concert in 2010. The Fearless album which came out in 2008 was the first album I ever bought and the first concert Fearless in 2010. I just turned 12. I was in the sixth grade. It was at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on Long Island, TBT because the Nassau Coliseum doesn't exist anymore. Since then, I have been to every single tour she's ever had. I've hit every single one. And I used to dress up in the most crazy costumes and make light -up signs to get into. She would have these little things after the concert where she would meet fans. She used to call it the T Party. Then she called it Club Red. Then she called it Loft 89. Bitch kept changing the name. But it was you would meet her after the show, but it wasn't like you paid for a ticket. It was like fans were scouted from the crowd for like showing their Taylor Swift spirit. So I would go hard on my outfits and line up sides at costumes like I always wanted to meet her. I've literally been manifesting meeting Taylor Swift since I was 10 years old and it took 15 years, but it fucking happened. Like I went hard with my outfits, but so did everyone What else? When Taylor Swift was canceled by Kim K, I died on the hill defending her regardless if anyone would or wouldn't listen. I screamed that shit into the void. And my story, what happened to me? I'm not shy about it in case you guys couldn't tell by this podcast I have. That doesn't even need to be stated. But I've always loved talking about myself so much. And if anyone asks me a question, seven minute monologue, that's the rule, not the exception. I'm a Sagittarius rising Taylor Swift as a Sagittarius sun. We both have that in common. I'm in Aries sun, so double fire sign. I love the spotlight. Just like Taylor. The other thing we have in common is I'm a Scorpio Moon and she's a Scorpio Rising. So Taylor and I, there's a lot of similar personality traits between Taylor and I, but including the love of the spotlight. And the best thing about being punted by a mini SUV is I'm always the main character. Like literally always it's the best. And Taylor Swift would probably agree that that's a great part and when I gained consciousness and more so understanding of what happened to me, considering and took my mom like six times of telling me I was hit by a car, for me to understand I was hit by a car, I thought, this wasn't my first thought, but it was it was in the first few, I thought this terrible thing that happened to me, that was going to prevent me for the rest of my life from making normal lifelong memories, especially my 20s. I mean, I'm still making lifelong memories, but like having your eyes stitched closed is just like a little bit different from the euphoric rush that comes from riding Disney's Tower of Terror, which I can never do a fucking again. Like I suppose they're like on the same level in terms of the oversimulation, but in terms of the euphoria, the eyes stitched closed, no, it's just not Um, so I have to make everything positive that I can out of this experience because I've lost out on, on so many other positive things because of this thing that's happened to me. The universe left me with one option, okay? I have this clusterfuck. I have it. That's a fact. Make it good or make what you can good, I guess. And I get what I want. That's always been a thing about me. I get what I want. I wanted to live when I had an over 99 % chance of dying. I made that happen. They told me the right side of my body would always be weaker than the left side because I hurt the left side of my brain. I murder myself at the gym every day to keep it balanced because I didn't like that diagnosis. I didn't like the diagnosis. That one side of my body would always be weaker. I've wanted to meet Taylor Swift when I was 10 and I found a way to make that happen. I, my met her and not only did I meet her, I met her in 2023 mid -Eras Tour. So when she was at her peak fame, okay, 2023 mid -aristore, that was when it was the hardest to meet her, but Inaris loves the challenge. So naturally, I won that fucking challenge. And here's how I did it. 

After a brain injury, I'm still fucking smart. And I devised a master plan. Taylor was coming to LA to tour Eras, right? Okay. And a couple months before she came to LA to tour Eris, I scoured the internet for, I don't want to say who's email 'cause I don't want everyone to go and do it, but someone on her team's email. I scoured the internet for this email and I had, you know, a few important tidbits that I wanted to advertise. And everything I'm about to tell you is true. None of this is embellished. It's all 100 % too. I thought, you know, if I advertise these tidbits in the right way, I could maybe get upgraded concert tickets to the most iconic, record -breaking, lengthy show ever. Like that would be incredible. Or maybe just a signed calendar. Beggars can't be choosers, but like, hopefully I'd get something. Something had to be possible, it had to be. So the tidbits I was advertising are as follows. My mom, okay, she wasn't allowed to play music with lyrics while I was taking my nap in my coma. She wasn’t allowed to play music - I don't know the brain's high maintenance while it's healing. So she played instrumental Taylor Swift for the duration that I was comatose. I was moved out of the ICU to the regular hospital on the day an album of hers read Taylor's version came out. And here is the PR wet dream. I told my guy that my editor, Nick Nick with that shake it off was gonna play a role in this. The PR wet dream is that my mom had a video of my brother dancing for me while I'm in my hospital bed to shake it off by Taylor Swift. I'm like trying to dance back, but I had a quarter of a brain at this point. So my dancing is just like swaying with my arms up, but my brother's dancing for me. So I knew this video. I knew this video. I knew that like that that that is a PR like I knew they were going to eat that up so I put it all into an email okay and I send it out to the person that this is on her team's email um and I figure like it's a long shot because she's probably getting thousands of emails a day but you know you you you miss 100% of the shots you don't take So you got to shoot all the shots no matter how long because eventually one's gonna land. I don't hear anything back. So I think good effort But that's it So Taylor comes to LA for the Ares tour. I go twice be jealous of me Both my tickets were face value. I know I know but I didn't spend thousands I spent less than 250 and I was in the 200 section for both now in the 400 sections face value tickets one time I go with my friend page one time I go with my friend Amy and at this point I've Entirely forgotten about the email that I sent to the person on her team and Page for clarification. She is the other half of the infamous dinner at Isabelle Shouting at Ysabel because it's a great restaurant those ballet saved my life but Paige is the she's my current roommate one of my best friends and she's the other half of that sequence of events so I go to the concert entirely forgot for have forgotten about this email and it's I mean it's a legendary concert it's over three hours it's broken like 86 records Taylor Swift is incredible like I don't even need to say that the concert was amazing no concert will ever  compare like even if an artist does eventually try to compete and put on a show that's similar, like it won't compare because Taylor Swift did it first. That's the reality of the situation. Taylor Swift did it first and they'll just be trying to catch up. And that's Eras and that's Taylor Swift. 

So flash forward to this September 2023. Eras was in August. I'm not in my own business. And I get an email from Taylor Nation, her fan club that I'm invited to the Eris Tour concert movie premiere. And I assume I was selected because I live in the LA area and the movie is premiering in LA. And also, again, I've been to every tour. So I've been signed up for her fan club, like her emailing list since I was like 10 years old. So I assume that like that increased my likelihood. I don't know. This is just me putting reason into why I received this gift. But the email clarifies that not everyone who's invited is going to actually go. You have to RSVP and only a few people will be selected because seating is very limited. So I RSVP, but I don't think I'm going to go because I RSVP like three hours after I got the email. So I'm like, it's probably filled by this point. But I still try. We're allowed to bring a plus one and I obviously I RSVP Paige as my plus one like she's one of my best friends She lives in LA like we've gotten way way way closer since she was the other half of that dinner And you know this whole invite was it was because of that dinner is because of the universe reflecting on me so RSVP but I don't hear anything back from them And Paige, actually one of the first things we became friends over when we were freshmen in college in 2016, in 2016 at USC, was that we both cried in SoulCycle classes to tell her sweat. That's like one of the first things we became friends over. So like she was just an obvious plus one for me. So RSVP both of us, but I don't hear anything back. And And yeah, so it's, I go to New York in the beginning of October, 2023. And I'm pretty sure it was for concerts for my fifth eye surgery, but final surgery overall, 16 out of 16. So really like a really big surgery and a really, really good one. And I'm in New York and I'm with my mom. And the movie premiere it's coming out, it's released to the public on October 13th, 13th her lucky number, but the premiere is the 11th. So my mom is like, have you heard anything back from them? And I'm like, no, I haven't heard anything back. And my mom's like, you should email her fan club just to like check and see if you missed something. And I'm like, no, like, I'm sure they would get in contact with me if I did. And my mom is like, either way, if you email them, "It can hurt and it will show them that you care." And I was like, "Okay, I guess I'll do that." So I emailed her fan club to be like, "Hey, I haven't heard anything, neither has my guest just checking in, blah, blah, blah." Her fan club responds back and they're like, "Oh, you haven't gotten anything from us?" And I was like, "No." They're like, "Well, you were supposed to yesterday." And I was like, "Well, there was a glitch in the simulation because I did it and that's why I'm emailing you." And they're like, okay, you'll get something tomorrow. And at this point I'm like, will we invite it? Because why would they need us to get something if we weren't invited, you know? So I'm like, oh my God, are we invited? Am I going to the Eris Tor movie premiere? Sure enough, the next day I got the email, I'm fucking invited to the errors toward movie premiere and therefore so is page So I'm like so it like oh my god. This is amazing. I'm supposed to go back to New York that Friday I'm suddenly moving my flight up to jet set back to LA that Monday the movie premiere is on Wednesday like obviously I'm going to this and I Can't this is gonna be so great like ask and you will receive I I asked them why I hadn't heard anything, and they gave me tickets, I received tickets. You heard that right, so amazing. But they didn't give us any information, okay? Basically, they only told us that we were seeing the movie the day it premiered two days before it was released the general public on October 11th. They didn't clarify if we were going to the actual premiere itself. Like, I didn't know if we were gonna be seeing a screening at a different location or if we and like we were just seeing it two days before it was released to the general public they didn't clarify that and we also didn't even know if Taylor was going to be at this movie premiere that hadn't been announced and she was in the middle of touring the eras so we didn't even know if she herself was going to be at her movie premiere and they didn't even give us the location they told us that we would receive the location A few hours before and also even more so it wasn't even announced with the location of the main premiere was That hadn't been announced yet. So it was truly like a I might be flying back to LA for like kind of nothing It was like I might be flying back to LA to watch a movie of a concert that I already saw twice Like there was no guarantee. I was I was cautiously optimistic but there was no guarantee. Like I was cautious and tentative about my excitement because if I was going to the actual premiere itself that would be a top 10 moment in my life for sure. As of this point in my life it's the best moment that I've ever had but who knows what my future holds but like I was holding myself back from feeling that joy because I didn't want to get my hopes up and I was also simultaneously battling severe PTSD. 

Yeah, I was having really traumatic flashbacks from when I was 15 and I went to the one direction. This is us, global movie premiere. This one's going to be hard for me. Like this is going to be a little hard for me to talk about. his event, it created PTSD stronger than the the Nissan did. Okay. It created the PTSD. Like I, I like, I'm overheating, just talking about it. Like, I do see what I have to do. Like it was, it was so like, should I pull my hair up? I'm getting anxious. Like, just for this reflection, like, like, this is, this is really hard for me. Okay. Those tickets. All right. They were my sweet 16 present to the tickets so that this is us one direction global movie premiere even though I was like eight months out from turning 16 they were my technicalities they were my sweet 16 present fuck a party I'm going to one directions movie premiere okay this ticket is $500 okay and I brought two friends because sweet 16 so all in all I spent $1500 and by I I mean my parents because I was a young child still living off my parents at this point, and my parents were essentially robbed of that $1 ,500. Okay? This fucking horrible, miserable excuse of a premiere. The entire thing was mismarketed to us youths.

Like, you know One Direction's fanbase. It was 90 % girls below the age of 18, teens and tweens who were going to this event and buying these tickets and like This is who they chose to lie to this is the group that they chose to scam and Like this is the group that One Direction chose to prey on and I know not the voice specifically and like I know My King Harry would never do that to me like I know my baby would never do that to me but One Direction's team or whoever organized this like They gave me trauma heartless sociopaths and this experience like guys. It made me stop liking them Okay, that's how bad. This event was it made me

stop liking them and I loved these boys I would have taken five bullets one for each of them like I love these boys and this premiere is what made me say goodbye to them, which my parents were really fucking happy about because their existence had dictated my life for over two years. But my family was supposed to go to Turks and Caicos the week of this premiere, right? They moved the trip up. They moved the trip up a week, because I threw that level of a temper tantrum about how I needed to go to the premiere. And my family knew that if they didn't concede to me, I would cry the entire time we were in Turks and Caicos and complain forever. Do you know how much energy it takes to throw that level of temper tantrum to get your family to move an international vacation? Like I aged two and a half years throwing that temper tantrum. I, I aged my parents two and a half years putting on that performance. And like the ungrateful brat I was, I would have cried the entire time we were in fucking Turks and Caicos. They have to move the entire trip and I would have. And like, what did I get for giving that much of myself to that temper tantrum. What did my parents get for being on the receiving end of all that from my trauma? I got lies. I was rewarded with lies. Lies were my only reward. Like my temper tantrum, it was equivalent to a category four hurricane. Like Hurricane Sandy can't hold a fucking candle. New York people remember. Like They, Hurricane Sandy, kept me out of school for 10 days without power for over two weeks, and that still has nothing on the temper tantrum that I threw to go to this premiere. But I thought this performance of mine was worth it. I thought it would be worth it, because I was told, I was told, need my coffee, like I'm getting worked up. I was told I would walk the red carpet. The same one that the boys were walking, I thought the cells on my shoes, my intermix with the cells on their shoes, that's what I was told, okay? That didn't happen. That didn't happen. They ran out of time or some dumb ass excuse like that. They ran out of time. So that didn't happen, no red carpet. but it was okay, it was okay, because the premiere was excellent, and I was still looking forward to what I was told would happen after the premiere. After the premiere, we were supposed to go to the after -premiere party, like the after -party for the premiere, this very same one the boys were going to, which we did, we did, we went, except, we were on one floor in one room, while one direction was on another floor in another room there was a stupid fucking balcony that one time they came out and like waved to us like the serfs we were up there in the VIP room like they looked down at the plebeians below like hi hi it was terrible and that that was not in the fine print because you best believe this bitch read the fine print okay It was, we were told that we would go to the same party and technically we did, except they literally had curtains. They literally had curtains. So we couldn't see the boys while they were partying or whatever, we couldn't even see them, they had curtains. Like at one point they opened the curtains and like wave to us. Harry Styles threw a T -shirt and I caught it. I think that's why I've always liked him even when all this happened because he threw that T -shirt and I caught it, and I was like, "He cares about me." (laughs) That was it. That was it. Other than that, nothing. I, like, we were down there at this, at this, at this party. It, like, all us fans, all us little tweens in our Charlotte Russe dresses and our heels that none of us knew how to walk in because we were in the third fucking grade. and it was all for nothing, it was all for nothing. I sobbed the entire drive home. And that was the day I said goodbye to these boys, which I think my mom, while she was driving us home, was like, "Fuck yes," like I honestly think that was probably what happened. I only let One Direction back into my heart when I started seeking nostalgia when I was like 20 years old. That is only when I left them back into my heart. Now I love to run and work out to old One Direction. I've rewatched their movie, Liam's Death. I took very hard. Like, R .I .P. Liam Payne. That's been hard on me. I thought about him a lot. And, you know, I always rode for Harry Styles. I will always ride for that man. That never went away. But now we are back in our love for One Direction. And I think Liam would be really happy about that. This podcast episode is making me sound like such a fangirl. I promise I'm not. It's just One Direction, Taylor Swift, and Harry Styles. It is no one else. That is it. It is just the three of them. Moral of the One Direction story. You're probably like, I thought this podcast episode was about Taylor Swift. Why are you talking about One Direction? The moral of this One Direction story is that I wasn't expecting anything from this goddamn movie or premiere of Taylor Swift because I know what that shit concert movie or premiere is like. And to quote George Bush, "Fool me once, shame on you. You fool me, you can't get fooled again." Have you seen that with George Bush? Oh my God, it is so funny. So George Bush, you can look it up. There's this video where he goes, "We have a saying back in Texas. "You fool me once, shame on you. You fool me, you can't get fooled again.” I can't forget what happened. So to quote George Bush, "Fool me once, shame shame on you, you fool me you can't fool me again”

okay that's that's that's how I felt in regards to Taylor but anyway back to her they told those of us who were invited to not say anything online so there wasn't like it wasn't like fans were communicating online giving their like they're sharing their information there were like five people who risked it by like going on TikTok and saying they were going but like no one knew what was happening and the main discourse in the community of of the people I saw that were going was what the fuck do we wear because were we walking in the red carpet or were we just going to sit in a movie theater like should I be wearing sweatpants which is what I usually wear to the movie theater or should I be dressed up like I was for the One Direction movie premiere in my heels and that I now know how to walk walking. Well, actually, no, because the balance center of my brain got damaged, so I actually still can't walk in heels. But, okay, should I be dressed up like I was for the One Direction premiere in a Charlotte Russe dress and still not heels? This time we're forgoing the heels, but the same thing. So sweatpants, heel, like, what are we wearing? So no one knew what to what to expect. So The day before the premiere the Grove in Los Angeles is set the fuck up And I mean like it's huge like the grove is shut down Stores are closed red carpets everywhere So Taylor Swift is definitely gonna be at this premiere like miss Swift is definitely showing up We still don't know if we're going to the Grove because it's the day before and we're not finding out to two hours before until a few hours before but it's Grove and Taylor Swift is going to be there. And honestly shocking that she had this premier in LA because she famously doesn't like LA. And she has a song about her beloved New York City in which she literally refers to New York City as her quote "true love." Like verbatim, that's what she calls it. So like, shocking that she had it in LA, but I'm telling you that's the universe. I'm the entire reason that Taylor Swift had her movie premiere in LA it's because of me it's because of me the universe wanted to give me that like everyone who met her you got me to thank for it but day of the premiere us fans are emailed the location and it's the Grove holy shit hashtag confirmed we are going to the actual premiere and Taylor Swift is gonna be there I'm set to watch a movie about Taylor Swift with Taylor Swift, this is going to be incredible. But again, like, I'm thinking that we will, at best, see her walk by and pose for some paparazzi pics on the red carpet. That's what I'm thinking. Like, I still don't know if we're gonna even graze the red carpet or if we're just gonna be ushered into the movie theater seats. Like, I don't know. Get to the premiere. And it's like 250 -ish fans around this barricade that circles a red carpet. And I got a spot behind someone who was like second, who was the first person from the barricade. So I'm like second person from the barricade. So I'm like, oh, I'll get a decent enough view of her. And I think she's gonna come out, maybe like sign some things, take pictures with a few fans, but like that's it. Like that's what I'm expecting. And that's more than enough. Like to be within 15 feet of Taylor fucking Swift, like that blessing, blessing, that's more than enough. This is alone is incredible. So while we're waiting for, I don't even know what we were waiting for, but while we were waiting, us fans were chatting. Some people were invited through Spotify. Some people were invited through Live Nation. Some people were invited through Taylor Nation. Those who were invited through Spotify only got to go to go to the movie premiere or the red carpet. They didn't get to go to both. Those of us who were invited through Taylor Nation, we got to go to both and obviously, I'm in the top tier better group. That's the only thing that makes sense with my brand. If there's a first class and a second class, I am first class and as I'm conversing with everyone I'm hearing, ‘I flew from Florida,’ ‘I flew from Montana,’ ‘I flew from Arizona.’ I'm Like ‘I'm from 10 minutes away. I took a Lyft, cost me $12 whole dollars.’ So by this point, the whole being in the LA area, that reason for winning the lottery or whatever, that's not it at all. And then fans start asking me for like my accounts. So I give them my Instagram, which is just my personal Instagram. I hadn't started Gabriella rebranded yet. So I give them my, and they're like, ‘no, no, no, not your personal account, like your fan account.’ And I was like, ‘oh, I don't have a fan account.’ And they were like, ‘what? You must be on some special list.’ That's not shocking, but how I got to this list that I don't know that I don't know I don't know what this list is. I don't know how I'm on there. I don't know why I'm on there So as I'm like It hits me I'm like, oh my god, the fucking email. I'm like the fucking email That's the only thing it could be and then all of a sudden Taylor walks out while we're in mid -discussion. No announcement or anything. She just like appears out of thin air, like the magical unicorn goddess that she is. And like everyone is like, "Oh my God." Cause all of a sudden she's just there. And she starts going around this red carpet barricade and she's taken a selfie with every single fan there. It doesn't matter if you're five people away from the barricade or right up against the barricade she waits for like you guys to rotate and she takes a selfie with every single damn fan she is so fucking good to her fans like no one loves her fans more than Taylor Swift it's her priority she ended a six year relationship about her over her fans basically like she her fans come before everything and like of course she did a better job than One direction like at their peak they were 1 /16 of where she is today and that's because they never cared about their fans 1 /16th as much she's gone to where she is because of how much she loves her fans and how much she supports people unlike One Direction and why the fuck am I talking this much about One Direction it's the trauma it's the trauma and this podcast is about overcoming trauma so it's appropriate it's on theme but again back to Taylor 

I'm like holy shit I'm gonna meet fucking Taylor Swift like it's finally happening it's actually I did it I made this fucking happen Taylor Swift is gonna hold my iPhone Taylor Alison Swift her fingerprint will be on my phone screen and she's taking a selfie with everyone but she's not talking to everyone because she's got like four to five minutes okay she she she She knows the priority is pics or it didn't happen. And she's got like four to five minutes to like meet all the fans because then she's gotta go. She's gotta go to the actual red carpet with like Beyonce who rumor has it, I've heard might be a little bit more high profile than I. So she's gotta get to that red carpet, do interviews or whatever your concert movie premiere she is. I don't know, There's a to -do list, I imagine. So she's selfie -ing and going. She's a woman on a mission. We're just there. And very clearly, every single fan wants to say something that's gonna get her attention or whatever. But like, so everyone, I'm on like this second half of the barricades of the later half, and everyone is like brainstorming as we're waiting for her. Like, what are you gonna say? Like, what are you gonna say to her? what are you going to say to try to get Taylor Swift's attention and everyone's giving each other, like motivating each other, giving inspiring ideas. And my own brilliant idea enters stage left. And what I think is Taylor Swift, she's heard the most bizarre things from fans. She's met hundreds of thousands, maybe millions at this point, but I knew I had had the one thing she had never heard before. I knew I had the one thing she never heard before. It's the same thing that I made the subject line of the email to the person that I emailed. And it got her attention. So why wouldn't it get Taylor's? I mean, it's worth shot. She's taking a selfie with the citizen on my left. I can literally see her pores. Spoiler alert, she doesn't have back name. And as she's starting to take a selfie with me, my heart's pounding, I'm overheating like I was talking about my PTSD from one direction. I'm overheating, I'm about to hyperventilate, and I just squeal out, you woke me up from a coma, and she stops, looks very confused, kind of horrified, shocked, and she just says, "What?" And as she's walking the red carpet of her concert movie, her ever -precedented record -setting tour. She pauses to unpack this, "The Coma Girl," and like the spotlight's on me, everyone's looking at me, main character energy, and like in a panic, I ramble out everything about the yeet and the accident, the coma and the music and the instrumental and the ICU release in the video. And she replies, "Thank you, But that was not me” and the medical care and the surgeries and the therapies and all all all that fun stuff in the rehab and then She was like “that was all you I that was all you” literally Taylor Swift goes “that was not me That was all you. I'm so glad that you're here. I'm so glad that you're here” and then see Taylor Swift met me, I didn't meet Taylor Swift. Taylor Allison Swift asked to hug me. She asked to hug me, okay? She asked to hug me. She didn't hug anyone else at this premiere. She asked to hug me. And obviously I like to wallet her over the barricade. She's like, "Can I hug you?" I'm like, "Yes." Like, I, oh my God, it was incredible. So as she's walking away post -hug, I'm like, "This was the best day of my life” and she turns around and goes she like brushes off the person that she's supposed to be taking a selfie with sorry you're not as cool as me but she like turns around and she goes “no the best day of your life was when you woke up” i don't remember that day so i wouldn't say it was the best day of my life but she goes no and i loved that amazing So, so because I don't remember that day, the best day of my life is for sure when I met Taylor Swift. 

And the moral of the story, unlike the more of One Directions, which was purely about negativity and betrayal and thithery, he -thery, the moral of Taylor Swift's is out of the worst thing in my life came the best thing in my life. Thus far, I don't give a fuck about my wedding when that happens. The day I met Taylor Swift, trumps that, like it trumps that so much, like think about how many people in their lifetimes get married, think about how many people have weddings, think about how many people meet Taylor Swift because they were hit by a car. Like she makes weddings look basic and you know, weddings are basic, but what's not basic is a coma and comas are rather unique. And because of that, my story was so obscenely horrifying enough that it was distinct enough to stand out to the most famous woman in the world's team. Mayhaps because it was dramatically gruesome, mayhaps because it was terrifyingly startling, mayhaps because it was like, wow, this girl's really milking this for everything that she's got, which, yes, I am doing. But I deserve to do that. And meeting Taylor Swift should be the bare minimum reward for relearning to how to walk talk and eat. I think everyone who wakes up from a coma should get to meet Taylor Swift. But I don't view my story as a tragedy or heartbreak. I view it as something to draw sympathy from other people. And I don't view my existence or my life or my experience as a loss or struggle. I view myself as doing the fucking most. I view myself as a winner like, "Guys, I get what I damn want." It may take time, but in the end, I always get there. I view myself as being the best and Taylor Swift agrees. And the note that I'll leave you on. At this point, you're probably like, "Okay, cool." But you don't know for sure you were invited because of the PR Wet Dream video. Like this is a beautiful, very spiritual story, but you don't know that that for sure was the reason you were invited. This could be that, Like your story that you've shrunk together to reflect spirituality could be a tall tale and Aesop's fable, if you will. Well, Taylor came into all the theaters. We were at the Grove, it's like 14 theaters, and we were all in them to talk to us a little bit before the movie premiere. And we were in assigned seating. You were assigned, you were in a ticketed seat. You were assigned to what row and what seat number you have. And Taylor Swift came into everyone and she told us that every single one of us was specifically invited because we did something that stood out to her team. They saw us doing something on social media that stood out to her team. And I looked down at my assigned seat in the handicap section of the movie theater and I said, yep, it was the fucking email. So, there you have it. Um, yeah, Taylor Swift is a fan of Gabriella rebranded. She would probably love this podcast. Win most lose some, that's a major win. That is a major win. But look at all I had to lose to have that win. Like, follow, subscribe, leave a review, do all the things. Look at how much I had to lose to have that win. This has been Gabriella rebranded "Win most, lose some."