Taylor Swift reveals writing ‘My Tears Ricochet’ after watching ‘Marriage Story’

It looks like we weren’t the only ones who got struck by Adam Driver and Scarlet Johannson’s painful depiction of love and divorce in “Marriage Story.”

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Taylor Swift revealed that the Oscar-nominated film inspired some of the lyrics to “My Teardrops Ricochet,” one of the songs in her latest album “Folklore.”

“I think I wrote some of the first lyrics to that song after watching 'Marriage Story' and hearing about when marriages go wrong and end in such a catastrophic way,”  the Grammy Award-winning singer was quoted as saying.

“So these songs are in some ways imaginary, in some ways not, and in some ways both,” she added.

Taylor said she found herself “very triggered by any stories, movies, or narratives revolving around divorce, which felt weird because I haven't experienced it directly.” 

“There’s no reason it should cause me so much pain, but all of a sudden it felt like something I had been through. I think that happens any time you've been in a 15-year relationship and it ends in a messy, upsetting way,” the singer said.

“So I wrote ‘My Tears Ricochet’ and I was using a lot of imagery that I had conjured up while comparing a relationship ending to when people end an actual marriage,” she added.

“All of a sudden this person that you trusted more than anyone in the world is the person that can hurt you the worst. Then all of a sudden the things that you have been through together, hurt. All of a sudden, the person who was your best friend is now your biggest nemesis, etc. etc. etc.”

Taylor Swift released her 8th studio album, “Folklore,” by surprise amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Though the album was not planned, the singer said she poured all her “whims, dreams, fears and musings" into it.

Taylor recently opened up about her ongoing legal battle against her former label and music executive Scooter Braun to regain ownership of the master recordings of her earlier music. — Margaret Claire Layug/LA, GMA New