On the Thursday, July 17 episode of the Query The whole lot podcast Braun addressed the hypothesis head-on. “No, ‘trigger I speak to Yael day-after-day,” he mentioned bluntly. “My ex-wife is one in all my finest associates. So, me and my ex-wife chuckle about that stuff. We do not even name one another ‘ex.’ That is, like, my associate. [She’s] the mom of my youngsters [and] that’s my household for all times.”

He continued, “I’ve a tattoo on my finger that claims ‘similar workforce’ after my divorce as a result of she and I are [on the] similar workforce for all times. It is what we are saying to one another. So, no, I by no means thought that it was about us, [and] she by no means thought it was about us.”

Braun filed for divorce from Cohen in July 2021 after seven years of marriage. The break up was finalized in September 2022. The previous couple shares three youngsters and per TMZ, agreed to joint custody and a division of property, with Braun ordered to pay youngster help.

Whereas Braun shut down the rumors, he was capable of acknowledge the advertising and marketing genius behind Swiftie hypothesis, joking, “It is an ideal technique transfer.”

The only seems on Swift’s Grammy-winning Midnights album and consists of pointed lyrics many followers interpreted as a direct shot at Braun.

“She wanted chilly, onerous proof, so I gavе her some / She had thе envelope, the place you assume she acquired it from?” Swift sings. “Now she will get the home, will get the youngsters, will get the pleasure / Image me thick as thieves together with your ex-wife / And she or he appears to be like so fairly / Drivin’ in your Benz / These days, she’s been dressin’ for revenge.”

Whereas Swift has by no means confirmed who the observe is about, hypothesis was instant, particularly given her long-standing feud with Braun after the music government purchased Swift’s masters from Large Machine Information in 2019 by way of his firm Ithaca Holdings, prompting outrage and a re-recording campaign that may in the end put Swift again on prime.

Braun later went on to promote the catalog to Shamrock Capital for a reported $300 million in 2020, with Swift in the end shopping for the masters of her first six albums again earlier this yr.

In a Could letter shared on her web site, Swift celebrated shopping for again the masters, writing: “To say that is my best dream come true is definitely being fairly reserved about it. To my followers, you understand how vital this has been to me — a lot in order that I meticulously re-recorded and launched 4 of my albums, calling them ‘Taylor’s Model.’”

She added, “The passionate help you confirmed these albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I used to be capable of purchase again my music. I am unable to thanks sufficient for serving to to reunite me with this artwork that I’ve devoted my life to, however have by no means owned till now.”