There were a few years when a lack of Taylor Lautner in the news probably had his fans wanting to ask him, “Where the hell have you been, loco?” Sadly, it turns out that interest in Lautner’s life had something to do with this absence. In a January 27 interview, “TODAY” correspondent Jason Kennedy spoke to the actor about why he spent a decade avoiding going to the grocery store and other public places. “I was scared to go out. I’d get super anxious,” Lautner said.
But while screaming fans and invasive paparazzi made leaving home a stressful experience, Lautner confessed that he became concerned when the interest seemed to wane. “You start to question yourself and start to be like, ‘Oh, do people not care about me anymore?'” he said. Spoiler alert: They still do, and Lautner has since been introduced to a whole new generation of teens thanks to the “Twilight” movies streaming on Netflix. “Before that, to be honest, it was mainly the ‘Twi-moms’ that would still stop me in the streets,” he told People. “It’s like teenagers again.”
Lautner told Kennedy he credits his fiancée, Tay Dome, with “getting me back to where I am today.” His relationship with the registered nurse is also evidence that he’s a lot more comfortable with his “Twilight” fame. He revealed that Dome is a Twihard fan, and, shockingly, she used to be Team Edward. “I converted her,” he joked.
