Taylor Swift became obsessed with Dame Elizabeth Taylor after she was compared to actress by the late movie legend's son.

The pop star has revealed she felt "so flattered" when Taylor's son Chris Wilding compared the two women and called himself a "Swifty" - and it inspired her to write a song about the Cleopatra legend.

In a video posted on TikTok, Taylor explained: "My parents sent me this clip of Elizabeth Taylor’s son saying something very flattering, that if there were one person he might compare to his mother in the modern day, in terms of persona and … the chaos around us, he said it would be me.

"I was so flattered by that."

Taylor revealed she started bouncing ideas off her fiance Travic Kelce as she was working on lyrics for the track, which features on her new album The Life

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