Scooter Braun is breaking his silence on Taylor Swift’s lyrics that are widely speculated to be about his personal life. During an interview on the Question Everything podcast with Danielle Robay, Scooter denied that the Grammy winner’s track, “Vigilante Shit,” calls out his divorce from his ex-wife, Yael Cohen.
“No, ‘cause I talk to Yael every day,” Scooter said on the July 17 episode of the pod. “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. [She’s] the mother of my children [and] that is my family for life.”
The former music manager added, “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. It’s what we say to each other. So, no, I never thought that it was about us, [and] she never thought it was about us.”
At the time of its release, Taylor was in the thick of her re-recording process amid her long-standing feud with Scooter.
Swifties speculated that “Vigilante Shit” was pointed toward the former music manager, who had finalized his divorce with Yael in September 2022, a month before Taylor’s 10th album, Midnights, dropped. According to court docs obtained by Us Weekly, the former couple agreed to split assets with Scooter paying child support.
“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,” Taylor muses on the track.
Fans also pointed out that some lyrics could potentially point to Scooter’s $200 million legal dispute over his private equity fund, Ithaca Holdings: “While he was doing lines / And crossing all of mine / Someone told his white-collar crimes to the FBI / And I don't dress for villains / Or for innocents / I'm on my vigilante shit again.”
While he denied that his past relationship was the inspiration behind Taylor’s 2022 song, he gave the singer-songwriter props and called it a “great strategy move” to build up hype around the release.
As for where he stands with the pop culture icon, Scooter said that their longtime feud is water under the bridge during a June 2025 appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast.
“Everyone moves on,” he said at the time. “I choose to see it as a gift. I choose to see it as being able to have a perspective that very few people in the world have of knowing what that’s like. Of feeling that on a global level.”
