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Taylor Swift is finally breaking her silence on her relationship with Travis Kelce, revealing that the two already were “a couple” by the time she went to watch him and his Kansas City Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium in September.

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The pop star discussed the high-profile romance in a profile piece after she was named Time’s Person of the Year.

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“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift, 33, tells the magazine. “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”

Swift surprised her fans and the football world when she showed up to cheer on the Chiefs’ tight end Sept. 24.

The Cruel Summer singer has since been spotted in the stands at several other games, including last Sunday night’s loss at Lambeau Field against the Green Bay Packers.

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Last month, Kelce, 34, was spotted dancing and singing along at a South American stop on Swift’s Eras Tour.

Swift said that the two are comfortable publicly supporting one another and aren’t going to be secretive in their relationship.

“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” Swift said in her Time interview. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

The 12-time Grammy winner also spoke about the attention her appearance at the games has brought to the NFL.

“I don’t know how [fans] know what suite I’m in,” he said. “There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.

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She added that she’s “just there to support Travis” and has found herself a newfound fan of football.

“I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads … Football is awesome, it turns out … I’ve been missing out my whole life,” she joked.

Last month, the two-time Super Bowl winner revealed how their relationship began, telling the WSJ Magazine that there were people in Swift’s circle who were “playing Cupid” when she played a concert in Kansas City earlier this summer.