Taylor Swift Just Revealed What Ended Her and Katy Perry’s Feud

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry confirmed to the world yesterday that all is good between them after Perry made a cameo in the video for Swift's new single, "You Need to Calm Down."

Of course, most fans were already aware of the reconciliation. Perry sent Swift a literal olive branch last year ahead of her Reputation tour, and Swift reciprocated by sending Perry some "peace at last" cookies a few days ago.

Now Swift is revealing in new interviews how it all went down behind-the-scenes. "She and I have really been on good terms for a while. She sent me a really nice note and an olive branch to the—like an actual olive branch—to my tour when it started, the Reputation Stadium Tour, a while ago," Swift said on the UK's Capital Breakfast radio show, according to E!. "From that point on we've been on good terms."

"Then we saw each other at a party and walked up to each other and hugged it out and talked about things, and then we saw each other again and hung out at another party, and it was just like something felt so much lighter about my life when things became really good between us," she continued. "And, you know, she and I have been fine for a while and really on good terms but we didn't know if we were ever gonna really tell people about it. We wanted to make sure that was solid between us before we ever made the public aware."

In a separate interview with BBC Radio 1, Swift said, "When we saw each other, it was just very clear to both of us that everything was different, that we had grown up, that we had grown past allowing ourselves to be played against each other. It was just really clear that we remembered how much we had in common, and so both of us have been in a really good place for a while, but I don’t think either of us knew if we were going to talk about it publicly..."

When Taylor Swift got the idea for her "You Need to Calm Down" video, she told Perry but wasn't sure if she'd want to keep things more private. She says Perry's response was simple: "I would love for us to be a symbol of redemption and forgiveness." The burger and fries of it all didn't come into play until Swift saw Perry's Met Gala look.

"I was like, That is amazing, because it felt very punk rock to me, her wearing that," Swift said. "I was like, That’s really cool and funny. And I was thinking, We’re going to have this moment in the video and it’s a bit too on the nose if it’s us wearing normal clothes and hugging—it won’t really fit…because this video is very wacky and very surreal and fun and playful. So I was like, 'Can we do a burger and fries as a metaphor for two people who belong together, people who are a perfect pair?' And she thought it was really funny and so we did it. And I think that the metaphor of us searching for someone who you have something in common with, and then seeing them and having it originally represented, is funny."

Originally Appeared on Glamour