Zoë detailed how her mom was still holding onto the snake’s tail, explaining: “They’re all muscle and very, very strong.”

She noticed that the hole was next to a built-in banquette, and wondered if it led to the drawers, but when she took the drawers out, she was dismayed to learn that this was not the case.

At this point, Zoë admitted that she “started to panic” as the snake was getting “further and further” into the hole. 

She recalled: “It’s like that scene in Jurassic Park when they’re in the car and the branches breaking every time they move. I was panicking so much that my mom likes to say: ‘If I had both hands, I would have slapped you,’ just to get it together. I was freaking out.”

Zoë called her assistant, who also didn’t know what to do, and eventually, Taylor’s house manager appeared. After he’d processed that there was a snake loose in the bathroom, he got a crowbar and started to “tear apart” the banquette.