{"id":8090295,"date":"2026-10-03T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=8090295"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:32:26","slug":"snl-dakota-johnson-monologue-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/tv-shows\/snl-dakota-johnson-monologue-taylor-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Interrupts Dakota Johnson\u2019s \u2018SNL\u2019 Monologue With Breakup Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/tv-shows\/dakota-johnson-distracted-by-her-boobs-seth-meyers-taylor-swift-question\/\">Dakota Johnson<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/tag\/snl\/\">&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;<\/a> monologue was interrupted this week by the actress&#8217; &#8220;literal therapist,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/music\/taylor-swift-makes-history-wins-first-ever-artist-director-honor-at-vmas-i-just-love-making-stuff\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, who bonded with the host over their shared experiences dating musicians who &#8220;don&#8217;t wear shoes&#8221; and happen to be &#8220;terrible in bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson kicked off her &#8220;SNL&#8221; run this week with a joke about her failed 2024 superhero movie &#8220;Madame Web,&#8221; which she remarked she is still promoting because &#8220;it hasn&#8217;t made any money yet.&#8221; Afterward, the actress reflected on the other turns her life has taken since she last hosted &#8220;SNL.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I went through two very public, very lame breakups with two very awesome musicians. Looking for a third,&#8221; Johnson joked, referencing her splits from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and Role Model singer-songwriter Tucker Pillsbury. While she vowed not to talk anymore about her personal life, Johnson&#8217;s monologue was derailed again after she noted that her new movie, &#8220;Verity,&#8221; is a psychosexual erotic thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So is dating musicians. Some of them don&#8217;t wear shoes. Some of them are terrible in bed. But all of them are in my DMs,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Some people leave concerts with merch, and I leave concerts with a two-and-a-half year relationship.&#8221; Thankfully, Johnson said she has &#8220;good friends&#8221; who do not judge her for her dating choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter: Swift, whom Johnson called her &#8220;literal therapist,&#8221; much to the former&#8217;s discomfort. &#8220;I&#8217;m not your therapist, actually. You just show up once a week at my house with an empty bottle of wine and ask if I want some,&#8221; Swift said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;SNL&#8221; monologue below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"cy\" dir=\"ltr\">Dakota Johnson\u2019s monologue! https:\/\/t.co\/ZxOi5zVZLF<\/p>&mdash; Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/2106594101445685491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson argued that she shows up at Swift&#8217;s house because she has &#8220;manners,&#8221; but the &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; singer-songwriter did not see it the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You plop on my couch and overshare, and every so often I just say, &#8216;Damn, that&#8217;s crazy,'&#8221; Swift explained. &#8220;And then I give you a pedialyte and my security drives you home.&#8221; Johnson, for her part, defended her taste in musicians as a &#8220;public service,&#8221; while Swift stood supportively next to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think actually I&#8217;m doing a public service by dating them because, ladies, I am saving you a lot of money on Zoloft,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;So you&#8217;re welcome, America&#8230; and also England and parts of Ireland and Cleveland, apparently.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swift&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;SNL&#8221; this week comes less than a week after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/music\/taylor-swift-patient-zero-music-video-premiere-vmas\/\">debuted the music video for &#8220;Patient Zero,&#8221;<\/a> one of four &#8220;encore&#8221; deluxe tracks she released last week tied to her 2025 album, &#8220;The Life of a Showgirl.&#8221; Johnson starred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/culture-lifestyle\/culture\/anne-hathaway-taylor-swift-patient-zero-verity-tie\/\">the &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; 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