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Taylor Swift’s forgotten (and very bloody) TV cameo: Unrecognizable singer landed ‘dream’ role on gritty crime drama – but freaked out her mom in the process!
Taylor Swift is the biggest star on the planet thanks to her record-breaking The Eras Tour and chart-topping hits, but has proved herself an accomplished actress over the years.
The Bad Blood hitmaker, 34, made her acting debut in 2009 when she landed a ‘dream’ job starring on her favorite show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – playing a troubled teen-turned murder victim with a murky family history.
The musician, then aged just 19 and fresh off the success of second album Fearless – and that interruption from Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, played Haley Jones on the season nine episode, Turn, Turn, Turn.
The star, known for her fresh-faced looks and signature blonde hair, debuted a shock gothic transformation with raven locks, smoky eye make-up and facial piercings.
Further drama ensued when Haley was found stabbed to death in a parking lot – with Taylor playing a bloody corpse in the autopsy room – in scenes which shocked her mother.
The episode began one year prior when Haley formed a friendship with CSI Nick Stokes (George Eads) as he investigated crimes at the motel she lived at.
The gritty role saw Haley feuding with her mother Nicole (Lisa Darr) and transforming herself into a goth after she was bullied online.
It is revealed Haley was accidentally stabbed to death with a pair of scissors by Nicole in a fight about her behavior and reaction to her birth mother Tanya (Mim Carrow) dying from an overdose.
Nicole also killed Tanya after she accidentally caused the death of Nicole’s baby daughter years before – and gave her Haley as a result.
Taylor said of her mom Andrea’s reaction to the gory scenes: ‘My [own] mom was a little freaked out. I was open-eye dead, literally had to stare off into nothing and not breathe during the close ups… not flinch or anything.
‘I even got to meet Jerry Bruckheimer and Cuba Gooding Jr.!
In a 2009 interview with MTV, she said: ‘All my friends know that my dream is to die on CSI. I’ve always wanted to be one of the characters on there that they’re trying to figure out what happened to.
‘The character Nick Stokes, it’s his crime that he deals with. It was really cool, because he’s my favorite character.