Jessica Chastain credits Taylor Swift with assisting her in moving on from a prior breakup.
The Scenes from a Marriage actress, 46, revealed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Friday that Swift, 34, sent her a break-up CD after the two met for the first time at the 2011 Met Gala.
“We were both sitting next to each other … and she was so sweet,” informed Jimmy Fallon that it was her first invitation to the fashion event.
She says, “I just went through a break-up and I was talking to her about that, and we went and danced together — it was such a fun night.”
“And then the next day, I had an email from iTunes that said, like, ‘Taylor Swift’ or whatever, and I just thought that it was a Taylor Swift album,” Chastain added, before revealing Swift “had made me a break-up playlist that she sent me! Isn’t that the sweetest thing?”
“What are you kidding me? That’s unbelievable!” Fallon, 49, spoke up.
“I know! And here I thought it was like a Taylor Swift advertisement,” Chastian continued. “And she had, like, curated all these break-up songs to send me to help me get through my break-up.”
Chastain met her future husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo a year later, in 2012, despite not revealing who she had broken up with in 2011. The couple has been married since 2017.
Chastain has continued to support Swift in return over the years; earlier this year, Fallon shared a photo of Chastain visiting Swift backstage with friends during her Eras tour.