Taylor Swift was not carried out of her home in a 'huge suitcase' – despite what you've heard

The INSIDER Summary:

• Celebrity news service Splash News reported that Taylor Swift was carried out of her apartment in a giant suitcase.
• The story was false and Splash redacted it.
• A bunch of people thought it was real.
• The tweets joking about it are still really funny.

Celebrity news agency Splash News has retracted its story about Taylor Swift sneaking out of her Tribeca apartment in a giant suitcase. But not before a lot of people believed it.

On Monday, the news agency posted a photo of two men holding a really big suitcase while another guy looked on. Here was the photo caption:

"Taylor Swift being transported in a huge suitcase from her Tribeca apartment into her truck, in the trunk. A fleet of cars including two large cadillacs and three suv's arrive at Taylor Swift's apartment in Tribeca to move a large suitcase from apartment to truck. Almost a dozen Taylor Swift security guards were present to move this package carefully as Taylor Swift remains to be unseen for a long time."

Splash is now retracting the story. A representative told Spin that Swift was not, in fact, in the huge suitcase.

"I literally just put the phone down from someone on Taylor’s camp," the representative said. "We’re having to actually retract that."

The caption now reads: "Taylor Swift's security guards are seen moving a huge case into the trunk of an awaiting SUV."

Taylor Swift is a private woman, so the news that the singer snuck out of her Tribeca apartment in a giant suitcase struck many as plausible, if a little strange. A lot of people, if Twitter is anything to go by, believed it.

But even more people, it seemed, made jokes about it.

Unfortunately, Taylor Swift was not, in fact, in the suitcase. At least as far as we know.

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