Less than a day after he publicly commented about his ongoing feud with Taylor Swift, Scooter Braun posted an online message to Swift herself, all but begging her to sit down with him and work out their differences -- for the sake of his family's safety.
"Since your public statement last week there have been numerous death threats directed at my family," Braun's lengthy Instagram message begins. "I came home tonight to find my wife had received a phone call threatening the safety of our children as well as other threats."
(MORE: Scooter Braun on Taylor Swift and his plans for the label that bought her music)Braun goes on to tell Swift, "I assume this was not your intention but it is important that you understand that your words carry a tremendous amount of weight and that your message can be interpreted by some in different ways."
After declaring, "[A]ll I have wanted to do is rectify the situation," and that he's "open to ALL possibilities," Braun writes that he's attempted to have an "open discussion" with Swift "over the last six months" but that she's "rejected" his overtures despite efforts by "some on your team and many of our mutual friends...to get you to the table."
"It almost feels as if you have no interest in ever resolving the conflict," writes Braun. "At this point with safety becoming a concern I have no choice other than to publicly ask for us to come together and try to find a resolution."
(MORE: 'Never in my worst nightmares': Taylor Swift on Justin Bieber's manager buying her back catalog)Swift's very public feud with Braun began this summer after he purchased her former record label, Big Machine, assuming the rights to her master recordings. Swift posted online that this was against her expressed wishes, in part because she felt Braun had disrespected and bullied her in the past.
The feud heated up recently after Swift claimed Big Machine wouldn't allow her to perform her old hits on Sunday's American Music Awards, and called upon her fan base and fellow artists to tell Braun and Big Machine how they felt about that.
(MORE: Taylor Swift says Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta won't let her sing her hits at the AMAs)Big Machine later issued a statement denying Taylor's assertion. Braun says in his Instagram post, "As the world now knows you can and should perform any song you would like at the AMAs. I have never and would never say otherwise."
There's much more to Braun's message, but it ends with, in part, an appeal to "find a resolution. I will make myself available whenever works for you. ... But if you would prefer to make large public statements while refusing to work towards resolving things amicably then I just pray that nobody gets seriously hurt in the process. I continue to wish you the best and hope we can resolve this."
(MORE: Taylor Swift receives support from Selena Gomez, Halsey and others amid Big Machine feud)He also posted a screenshot of what appears to be a text message or online comment, apparently directed to him or a member of his family, that reads, "Hi, why don't you just die withyour [sic] children??? I will buy a gun tmr and them [sic] shoot you allin [sic] the head."
As of Friday morning, there was no public response from Swift to Braun's post.
