Taylor Swift reveals she suffers from SLEEP-EATING and 'rummages through the kitchen for food like a racoon at night ... but doesn't remember it the next day'

By Jabeen Waheed For Mailonline

Published: 06:51 EDT, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 16:14 EDT, 15 May 2019

She has delighted fans by returning to The Ellen DeGeneres Show for the first time in four years.

And Taylor Swift happily joined the popular chat show host for a fun game of Burning Questions, in which she made the admission that she 'sleep eats'.

When asked by Ellen what she does at night when she can't sleep, the singer, 29, revealed that she 'rummages through the kitchen and eats what she can find' - but never has any recollection of it the next day.  

'Eating whatever I can': Taylor Swift, 29, made the admission that she 'sleep eats' while appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

'Eating whatever I can': Taylor Swift, 29, made the admission that she 'sleep eats' while appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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Taylor hilariously told Ellen: 'I go downstairs and rummage through the kitchen and eat what I can find. t's really less human being and more like a raccoon in a dumpster

'The next morning we walk downstairs and think "what happened here?"'

Clearly puzzled by her revelation, Ellen asked: 'Does that help you sleep? Do you sleep eat?'

Taylor replied: 'I think so. I don't really remember it, but I know it happens because it could only have been me... or cats.'

'Don't remember it': The singer revealed that she 'rummages through the kitchen and eats what she can find' - but never has any recollection of it the next day

'Don't remember it': The singer revealed that she 'rummages through the kitchen and eats what she can find' - but never has any recollection of it the next day

Secret habit: Taylor admitted that she 'doesn't really remember' eating at night but it 'must be her... or the cats

Secret habit: Taylor admitted that she 'doesn't really remember' eating at night but it 'must be her... or the cats

Meanwhile, Taylor was also asked about what the most rebellious moment as a teenager.  

Swift revealed that her most rebellious moment involved her talking about ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas on a 2008 episode of Ellen when she was just 18.

 'Probably when I like put Joe Jonas on blast on your show,' she began. 'That was too much, that was too much.' 

 'I was 18, yeah,' she continued. 'We laugh about it now, but that was mouthy, yeah, some teenage stuff there.'

Dishing all: Meanwhile, Taylor was also asked about what the most rebellious moment as a teenager

Dishing all: Meanwhile, Taylor was also asked about what the most rebellious moment as a teenager

'Put him on blast': Swift revealed that her most rebellious moment involved her talking about ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas on a 2008 episode of Ellen when she was just 18

'Put him on blast': Swift revealed that her most rebellious moment involved her talking about ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas on a 2008 episode of Ellen when she was just 18

Ellen joked that incident 'held onto you,' because she didn't remember it at all.

The incident in question came in a November 2008 episode of Ellen, when she was promoting her second album, Fearless.

Ellen mentioned that most of the songs on that album were about 'boys and love,' and she asked if one of said boys was Joe Jonas, when she revealed they had broken up.

'There's one (song) that's about that guy, but that guy's not in my life anymore, unfortunately. That's ouch,' she said.

Throwback! Ellen joked that incident 'held onto you,' because she didn't remember it at all

Throwback! Ellen joked that incident 'held onto you,' because she didn't remember it at all

WHAT IS TAYLOR SWIFT'S SLEEP EATING DISORDER? 

By Natalie Rahhal, US Deputy Health Editor  

She seems to suffer from a sleep-related eating disorder, an unusual condition that rouses her from bed and steers her involuntarily to the fridge where she is powerless against her own savage snacking - and leaves her with no memory of the episode. 

It's comical to imagine Taylor digging for food 'like a raccoon,' as she put it, but unconscious scavenging can dangerous. 

An expert told DailyMail.com why stress might be driving Taylor from bed, and how to handle a sleep walker like her if you should meet one searching you pantry.

There are two types of sleep-eaters: those who simply consume an outsize proportion of their food at night or close to night time.

People with night eating syndrome are 'really just eating during an unusual part of their Circadian rhythms,' explains Dr Jesse Mindel, an Ohio State University sleep specialist. 

'This is more similar to an anxiety disorder.'   

Those with sleep eating disorder, on the other hand, are fully unconscious during their bizarre binges.

Dr Mindel says that from Taylor's brief description on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, it's impossible to be sure which of the disorders she might have - if she has either.  

No one is really sure what causes sleep eating, but it tends to happen in the first half of the night, before rapid eye movement begins, and suddenly, someone becomes 'aroused' - meaning the patterns of their brainwaves change to be more similar to waking than sleeping. 

It's not just disruptive - it could be deadly.  

'Sleep eating is potentially dangerous because it's essentially someone who has a compulsion to eat while they're sleep walking,' says Dr Mindel. 

'Sleep walkers and people with these types of parasomnias are not very sophisticated and they do basic, primitive things and don't plan out ahead of time - they're kind of like bunnies, if you talk to them, they don't make a lot of sense.

'They don't make food, typically, they grab and eat whatever they get their hands on - raw meat, sticks of butter, mayonnaise - and they don't remember any of it.' 

In addition to less-than-appetizing foods, sleep-eaters may go for things that aren't foods at all. 

'The problem is they can also drink bleach and other toxic things,' Dr Mindel says. 

He advises that a sleep eater like Taylor should make sure they take safety precautions, like childproofing the areas where they keep cleaning supplies and even the fridge against their own unconsciously feral hands. 

There are also drugs to treat sleep eating, such as Topamax, which helps to prevent people with sleep problems from stirring at night.  

Sleep eating may start up due to other medications someone is taking or during stressful times, and is more common in those with sleep apnea or those that sleep walked as children. 

It's unclear what triggered Taylor's sleep eating episodes, but Dr Mindel says it's not something that most people have to deal with on a constant basis throughout their lives.

'It started for a reason, it's not a disease that comes of of the blue - something's going on that would cause those episodes to happen.' 

In the meantime, he cautions us all to handle her with care, should we encounter a sleep-eating Taylor. 

'You have to be kind of careful. If you wake someone up in the middle of one of these episodes, they don't know what's going on or where they are, so they may be frightened and try to fight back until they're fully awake,' says Dr Mindel.  

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