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    Scooter Braun has insisted his public falling out with Taylor Swift didn't "affect" him

    In 2019, the 44-year-old music manager bought the Bad Blood singer's former record label Big Machine Records and her master recordings, which he then sold on to Shamrock Capital in 2020, much to the fury of Taylor - who reacquired ownership of the recordings earlier this year - because she wasn't offered the chance to buy them herself


    And despite the backlash to his business decision, Scooter insisted the public outcry didn't have any impact on him, unlike the 2021 breakdown of his marriage to Yael Cohen, the mother of his three children.

    Scooter - whose real first name is Scott - told Danielle Robay on her Question Everything podcast: "No one in my family had ever been divorced.

    "And at that time, I had built up this foundation of Scooter because I didn't think Scott was strong enough. I didn't know that yet.

    "So having the perfect career, the perfect wife, the perfect life, the kids, the success, I thought that made me worthy of love. And it wasn't until our marriage came apart and I couldn't fix it. I felt like a failure because I didn't have a foundation.

    "But it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me because the ups and downs of artist life, the Taylor stuff, none of that actually affected me. Losing my marriage affected me."

    Scooter also dismissed speculation that Taylor's 2022 track Vigilante S*** was about his divorce.

    He said: "No, because I talk to Yael every day.

    "My ex-wife is one of my best friends, so me and my ex-wife laugh about that stuff. We don't even call each other ex. That's like my partner, that's the mother of my children.

    "I have a tattoo on my finger that says 'same team' after my divorce because she and I are on the same team for life. That's what we say to each other.

    "So no, I never thought that was about us. She never thought it was about us and everyone else kind of feeding into the fire.

    "Great strategy move, but nah."

    On Vigilante S***, Taylor sings about befriending an ex-wife.

    The lyrics include: "She needed cold hard proof so I gave her some, she had the envelope, where you think she got it from? Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride. Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wife. And she looks so pretty, driving in your Benz, lately she's been dressing for revenge."

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