A Look Back at Taylor Swift's 2009 Guest Appearance on 'CSI' — and Why Mom Andrea Was a 'Little Freaked Out'

Taylor Swift guest-starring on CSI in 2009.Photo:Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty

Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty

What exactly doTaylor Swift,Jeremy Renner,John Krasinskiand Channing Tatum all have in common?

They all had guest roles onCSIbefore they werefamousfamous, of course!

Swift, now 34, was on the popular drama in 2009 when she was just 19. She was promoting her second albumFearless,and as a megaCSIfan at the time, she wastelling journalists that the guest role was a dream come true.

“For about three years I’ve been saying to everyone that my favorite show isCSI,” Swift toldRolling Stonejournalist Vanessa Grigoriadis, who was profiling Swift for her very firstRolling Stonecover at the time.

Now Grigoriadis has unearthed her original interview for the latest series of herInfamouspodcast, a four-part series aboutSwift’s meteoric rise to the top of the world.

The interviews include Swift talking about her experience onCSI, where she first played a dead body, and then teenager Haley Jones, whose story viewers learned about in flashbacks.

The episode, titledTurn, Turn Turn, aired on March 5, 2009 and opened up with a scene of a young, brunette Swift lying dead in a parking lot of a motel.

Taylor Swift guest starring on ‘CSI’ in 2009.Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty

But as the episode progressed, her character reappears as we learn how she ended up a murder victim, as well as witness to another murder that happened at the motel.

“I’m black-haired, have a nose ring, earrings, spikes, combat boots…” Swift told Grigoriadis of her character. “And you end up figuring out that there’s this whole back story, and that my parents had a child that ended up dying and I was the second replacement child. And my mom never really loved me… and there are so many different intricate storylines that come into play.”

Taylor Swift guest starring on CSI in 2009.Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty

“My [own] mom was a little freaked out,” Swift admitted of hermother Andrea Swift’s reactionto seeing her daughter play a dead body covered in fake blood. “I was open-eye dead, literally had to stare off into nothing and not breathe during the close ups… not flinch or anything.”

It wasn’t the only time Swift raved about the opportunity.

source: people.com