14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, word got out in the media that, three weeks after unceremoniously dumping Taylor Swift over the phone, Jake Gyllenhaal had again flown to Nashville for a dinner date. It turns out this may have been all about “closure.”
The latest print edition of Us Weekly (story via here) claims to have it from very reliable sources what were the motives for Jake’s impromptu visit, especially when he’d chosen to break things with Taylor in such a rude manner.
One insider, for instance, says that he wanted to see if he could “recapture the magic,” meaning that whether he and Taylor still stood a chance.
He went there determined to make things work – but the condition was to notice that said magic they had in the beginning was still there. It wasn’t.
“Taylor was just getting over Jake… she was thrown. Jake went to Nashville to see if there was anything still between them, if they could recapture the magic. Sadly, it wasn’t there,” says one insider.
Another source explains for the same magazine that the visit had nothing to do with starting things afresh, but rather with making sure they were properly ended.
Either Gyllenhaal felt bad about how he ended it with Taylor (over the phone) or he was feeling bad because this whole thing was making him look very bad in the press – but he wanted “closure.”
“Gyllenhaal ‘said he didn’t think they ended things right, and he owed it to her to talk face to face… he said he just wasn’t feeling things anymore. He didn’t like where things were headed’,” Us writes.
“Jake also asked Swift if she had leaked to the media that he dumped her with a phone call, and the source says Swift assured him she hadn’t. ‘He took her word for it, and Taylor told him she was fine letting it go’,” the mag adds.
Whichever the reason Gyllenhaal flew to Nashville to see Taylor again – whether to get back together, make peace or just put an end to it for once and for all – it would seem the two parted ways on good terms. Or so Us implies.